RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
May 24, 2021 at 3:25 pm
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2021 at 4:11 pm by Irreligious Atheist.)
(May 24, 2021 at 3:01 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Just out of curiosity, who would you say those naysayers were? Do you count me as one?
I don't remember exactly who they were, but there were many. Sungula and arewethereyet are a couple that come to mind. I asked Sungula if the former head of the CDC should be erased from the internet because he said the lab leak is likely and because he was supposedly spreading dangerous or harmful ideas to the public kind of like a Holocaust denier, and sungulas response was something along the lines of "Actions should have consequences", basically agreeing that the former head of the CDC should be silenced and erased from the internet.
I could go back into the thread and look up for you who else called it conspiracy thinking or mocked, but I'm not interesting in shaming people or calling them out by name. I just want people to see the error in their judgment and to learn from their mistakes, because I've been wrong about plenty of stuff in my life. We all have been wrong about plenty over the course of our lives I'm sure. The average level of intelligence on this forum is quite high compared to most forums, and I respect many of the posters here, despite disagreeing with them on some topics. We agree on most things I'm sure. I do not remember if you personally called the lab leak hypothesis conspiracy thinking, but if you say you didn't, I will take you at your word. I of course do not blame anyone on the forum who concluded that there was probably a natural origin to all of this, because that was scientific consensus, and you can usually bet on scientific consensus being right, but not this time (I mean about concluding that the lab leak hypothesis was highly unlikely and almost surely incorrect. I'm not trying to say it for sure came from a lab because we don't yet know where it came from). What really sucks is that now people are going to make the argument that scientific consensus was wrong on this, so maybe scientific consensus could be wrong about climate change and other things like that too (even though man made climate change is clearly happening). I'm not happy about any of this. I truly did not want to be right about this.