[newsclues]

We had the news spreading fear, the need to bow to authorities and consumerism, and attacking anyone who tried to think for themselves.

And you attack conspiracy theorists who turned out to be right about a number of aspects of the pandemic?

[Avamander]

A broken clock is right twice a day, some of these "predictions" are a coin toss to get right. This doesn't ever make the rest of those talking points more valid.

[newsclues]

Some of the critics are biologists who have been right more than the “experts” on TV.

So your comment applies to the establishment voices who straight up lied to the public and some people like yourself seemed to believe the liars. Lol!

[Avamander]

You have literally named no names, no predictions, no topic even, there's no substance at all. Yet somehow you have acquired the impression that my comment applies to the group you disagree with, wow.

You are reading too much into things just to confirm your viewpoints you have barely grazed.

[hotpotamus]

> We had the news spreading fear

I always wonder what people mean when they talk about "the news" or "the media". I don't watch any of the 24/7 cable stuff (I last had cable in 1999), but I get the impression its what actually drives the perception of whatever this unitary entity is believed to be thinking/scheming at any moment. So I'm somewhat blind/deaf to a lot of this zeitgeist, though I understand that like any media, they long ago cracked the code that negative engagement is more profitable, and so yes, scaremongering is part of the job, and so I tend to avoid it.

That said, I knew people who died from Covid, the latest just a few weeks ago. When my parents, who aren't young anymore got it, I was pretty fearful for them.