[kortilla]

Technology is the only reason the economy could somewhat continue during the pandemic. Did you hear about working from home?

Technology is how we got a vaccine so quickly.

Technology is how we tracked the spread. Technology is how we notified of potential exposure.

Nobody with a humanities background did anything meaningful to help compared to the last pandemic. It was all technology, engineering, medicine, and science that let us approach this one differently.

[wolverine876]

> Nobody with a humanities background did anything meaningful

If you learned a bit about it, you wouldn't show off rigid tunnel vision or you might express yourself clearly and without the blind destruction of hyperbole.

Why did people make or not make vaccines? Humanities (and social science). How were they funded, regulated, etc.? Ditto. What is the scientific method? Humanities (really). Why did the US and EU as expected, but not, e.g., Russia make the most effective vaccines? Humanities. Why did people take or not take vaccines? Humanities, or not enough humanities, or they were owned by people who mastered messaging and mass political communication, which is humanities.

[kortilla]

They were funded by other scientists and medical professions who became heads of the CDC, etc. People from humanities are ill quipped to select grant recipients for any real research.

The scientific method is philosophy, but the majority of humanities never go anywhere near the scientific method other than to convince themselves that doing a qualitative oral survey of some classmates is just as much a “science” as the falsifiable ones.

> Why did people take or not take vaccines? Humanities,

The failure of humanities to produce any meaningful predictive behavior of humans is a pretty good example of why it’s a failed branch of inquiry.

> mastered messaging and mass political communication, which is humanities.

The people who have done this are completely outside of the grasp of the humanities taught in US universities. Every Ivy League economist, sociologist, social psychologist, etc that was in US leadership for the last 20 years has done nothing but flounder.