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by bdibs 1751 days ago
Has something like this happened before in history? Where we have the tools to avoid deaths both caused by COVID and the indirect deaths caused by a lack of healthcare capacity, but the people refuse to use them?
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Obesity is a similar scourge, albeit it was not completely caused by misinformation.

Tbh I now see our society as a memetic organism and I think the cleansing of people who don’t understand reality is just a part of the process at this point.

> caused by misinformation

It's so deadly it requires misinformation to kill people? Why do you think it's taking years for the public to reach consensus, if this is such a threat?

i think a very real problem people face is its hard to discern what is reliable information (information overload, earned mistrust in "mainstream media", environment/culture, etc)
Banning "misinformation" makes all non banned information suspect.
yep, i think this is a very real paradox

banning misinformation might work short term, but longterm i suspect it will further harm things... long term credibility needs to be won back the hard way me thinks...

I agree. We're in the Misinformation Era, which is precisely why even the "official" sources are not to be trusted.