| > You seem to be under the impression there were no conspiracies during COVID, which is nonsense. You seem to be continuing to put words into other people's mouths. > You can read emails where people were given their top-down orders. This is literally not true (I've read the emails) > The synchronized flipflops on masks alone was enough to destroy many people's belief in doctors and public health. One man's "synchronized flipflop" is another's "appearance of new evidence and tradeoffs." > You can read meeting notes and journal reviews where people say that whilst claim X is true it would cause people to stop following government orders so it should be suppressed. Can you link me to this? > You can read interviews with public health officials who say they organized conspiracies to lying Can you link me to this? > akin to arguing that if two dictators happen to make the same decision their countries aren't dictatorships No, it's like arguing that if two dictators happen to make the same decision, it doesn't mean they are acting in coordination with one another. Which is obviously true. All I see in this thread is someone confidently asserting that he needs to be trusted with the truth despite reflexively dismissing data that doesn't fit his priors and, apparently, believing that it's unreasonable to assume that being physically closer to a person with a respiratory virus produces a higher risk of infection than standing further away. (I find that you're never far from truly insane opinions in convos with these "just a skeptic" types) You have done a fine job of demonstrating the loss of trust in the profession though, I'll give you that! It is almost entirely (not entirely, but almost entirely) due to people who have simply decided to be confidently wrong and, when asked for examples or sources over and over and over again, fail to produce them. You obviously have a right to form your own opinion on all of this stuff, but demonstrably don't have the capability to do it. Many such cases! |