every few days the horror strikes me: Americans are so wedded to their identities, certainties, and conveniences they won’t do a near-zero-cost minor annoyance thing like wear masks that could potentially save tens of thousands of lives...
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The engineering of the right-wing anti reality is amazingly thorough. I study it in detail. The ability to be in a bubble on think that you're the real world facilitates this. The right are like deluded Islamic fundamentalists or scientologists
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Might be the Heuristic Omelet: I'm breaking eggs, therefore an omelet will appear
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the virus is uniquely designed to inflict maximal damage on dystopian societies with selfish pricks who would rather let other people die than obey orders.
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Talking frontier morality - how far is your reading of „Starship & Canoe“?
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Asymmetrical unearned power. I have a gun, so I win for that reason alone. I am immune, so I win for that reason alone. ...vs. winning because I deserve to on the merits. It produces/covers guilt.
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Except that this frontier bias is defined not only by imposing control on "nature" as was the case with the original "pioneer spirit" but rather imposing individual choice over institutional safety. (Don't tread on me / Liberty or Death)
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And we always look at the other when making that judgment. Somehow we won't be the ones to suffer. Until we are. Expect changes in behavior when everyone knows someone who has had covid.
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I agree of a Hobbesian streak. Related to it, how could you otherwise explain these graphs? What is going on?!? https://medium.com/@JohnPospichal/questions-for-lockdown-apologists-32a9bbf2e247 … https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341832637_All-cause_mortality_during_COVID-19_No_plague_and_a_likely_signature_of_mass_homicide_by_government_response …
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