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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
Was being mostly facetious.
But it does seem the war against COVID is one step forward and ten steps back and the anti vaxxers are doing their part to ensure this thing is not going away any time soon.
It could be years until we see a full return to normal.
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I think it's helpful to look at it the opposite way. Honestly, we're running forward at an incredible rate and sure, every 100m or so we get picked up and put back 20-30m, but we're still moving forward overall.
I agree though, it's frustrating watching stupid people full of unearned confidence do their very best to keep society from moving forward and even attempt to move us backward. I know we're not supposed to call them "stupid" because that's "mean" but there's little other way to describe people who, after nearly 2 years of this, still have zero scientific literacy and just repeat whatever political quackery they've been sold because it fits the conspiracy theory they find most compelling.
You've got laymen here arguing law with actual lawyers, quoting "scientists" who refer to the vaccines as fake and "rape," people who think deaths were faked to instill fear, people who still believe vaccine myths that have been refuted hundreds if not thousands of times over the past year, people who have called previous restrictions crimes against humanity. Honestly, how do you even begin to overcome that level of complete idiocy when those people have a level of confidence in their idiocy that makes any intelligent breakthrough next to impossible? Not to mention these are some of the same posters who all fall in a political line, spouting off racist, transphobic, hateful garbage in other, previous threads, and have the nerve in this one to act persecuted like jews in nazi Germany. It's wild, but expected. This is political for these people, not scientific. How do you overcome politics with science?