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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
The pandemic is maybe one of the worst examples you can use. Highly politicized on both sides, a quickly evolving situation where much of what we know now had to be learned (aka science!) along the way. Pinning a whole generation of affected learners on the left is absurd.
You’d have been better off citing anti-vaxxers as originating in the vaguely left wing, natural health sphere.
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I mean, the proof of what I'm saying is that you're not refuting any actual facts I presented, just vaguely pushing them off because of your biases.
I also highly disagree with the your point on "quickly evolving situation where much of what we know now had to be learned (aka science!) along the way".
By the time vaccines were widely available, the science and data was quite clear that the vaccines were effective at reducing the severity of symptoms and protecting a broad portion of the population, and also that children had a much lower chance of becoming severely affected. The science was clear. But this was still ignored by many on the left, and lockdowns continued, and any notion of the lockdowns being unwarranted was met by angry pitchforks.
Again, the data is clear in the US - children in blue states had a higher reduction in education scores. Clearly this was a politicized issue and had an effect on the younger generation. I don't know how you can possibly say it's one of "the worst examples possible", when it is clear that politics was the reason for this divide.
And again, my point isn't that the left's approach was worse than the right or anything like that. Many lives were needlessly lost because the far right identity politics preyed on people's stupidity against vaccines and mask mandates that science showed was clearly helping save lives. My point was to provide an example that the left has absolutely politicized science at the detriment to society. Though I 100% agree that it's nothing compared to what the right has done.