It really is a skill to have a calm discussion with someone on a complicated topic with a wildly different information diet (or, worse, no meaningful intentional information diet) I suck at it
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Yea I think we systematically underestimate just how rare it is to not be like a horse in a race. AKA have blinders on and be inward looking. We overestimate the desire (and for some of us, a need) to understand the world. I’m not even talking about the twitter people like us!
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I came to the same conclusions that
@DKThomp did in assessing the situation we are now in & I make decisions accordingly It is so fucking hard to talk to someone who picks up a titbit from CNN or MSNBC every two weeks & is so confident in their thinkinghttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/why-covid-death-rate-down/613945/ … - 7 more replies
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I am currently "debating" a guy about masks. I thought he was a Trump troll until he said, completely earnestly AFAICT, "it says right on the mask box -- won't protect against Covid-19!" Where do you even start?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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