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Covid 19 virus
PlainName:
--- Quote ---Go take your conspiracy theories elsewhere.
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Sometimes, conspiracy theories turn out to be true >:D
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 02, 2020, 09:14:28 pm ---
--- Quote ---I take back the polite approach. You're a nutjob.
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Ahem. You don't have to read his stuff, never mind reply to it. And you don't have to be nasty it politeness doesn't get the response you wanted.
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You don't have to read my stuff, never mind reply to it.
But kind of the whole point of being here is to read, consider and reply. If I didn't read 'his stuff' how would I know whether he had something germane to add? If people, including myself, don't reply to it, how is he going to ever understand that what he's saying is nonsense.
I'll give somebody the benefit of the doubt and I did. But when they then persist in trying to spread conspiracy nonsense in the face of a polite hint that it is unwelcome balderdash, while people are trying to have a sensible conversation about something really quite serious then experience tells me that patience, politeness and prevarication don't get the job done. If one pussyfoots with nutjobs, trolls, knuckle-draggers and other like denizens they just continue dragging the conversation down into the swamp.
I find it ironic that your post immediately after the one I'm replying to could be characterised as shit-stirring. So I'm not allowed to be blunt with people, but it's fine for you to just mindlessly stir it? Some cognitive disconnect there, I feel.
PlainName:
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Forget that. Waste of time.
nctnico:
--- Quote from: Gyro on April 02, 2020, 08:28:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on April 02, 2020, 08:19:53 pm ---It strikes me that many people seem to find it easier to deal with the idea that someone did this on purpose, rather than psychologically facing the fact that we are so subject to random whims of nature, and whims of humans. This would explain a lot of conspiracy theories, and why so many choose to adhere to them...
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People seem to think that, just because we're at the top of the food chain, we don't have natural predators any more. It's just that we've mostly conquered the ones with loud growls and big teeth, because we can see those coming!
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I agree. And the evidence pointing towards a natural cause is that everybody on the entire world is equally badly affected. And the signs have been on the wall for a long time. Very contageous diseases are wrecking havoc through 'our' lifestock regulary. This time it is our turn but unlike lifestock mass killing is not considered an option.
coppice:
--- Quote from: Gyro on April 02, 2020, 08:28:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on April 02, 2020, 08:19:53 pm ---It strikes me that many people seem to find it easier to deal with the idea that someone did this on purpose, rather than psychologically facing the fact that we are so subject to random whims of nature, and whims of humans. This would explain a lot of conspiracy theories, and why so many choose to adhere to them...
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People seem to think that, just because we're at the top of the food chain, we don't have natural predators any more. It's just that we've mostly conquered the ones with loud growls and big teeth, because we can see those coming!
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We are reaching the point where the oldest people you know were probably born in the era of antibiotics. My grandparents could tell me horrible stories of healthy school friends who were happily playing cricket, got a minor injury, and were dead a few days later from a runaway infection. People in developed countries have gotten used to living a long life with a low risk of dying of infection along the way. They fear things like cancer and accidents instead. Most people aren't psychologically prepared for a serious fear of infections to return. They treat this like the stuff of science fiction stories. I see people treating stories of MRSA outbreaks in hospitals like they were science fiction tales.
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