D&D and the rising pandemic

NotAYakk said:

The death rate from the seasonal flu in Australia this "winter" was amazingly low.

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Umbran said:

That's a partial explanation for the behavior, but I don't think it fully explains the resistance to reality involved, especially given the political polarization also involved.

For the latter, we can also look in part to some basic human psychology - when we take a position, we put an emotional stake in the ground. to overcome that emotional stake requires getting over two hurdles:

1) Social - being wrong has social capital impact. Folks will go a long way to deny being wrong to avoid loss of face, especially if the belief is tied up in the social circle. Today, disagreements with a particular belief can get you ostracized from some groups.

2) Personal - when you are wrong, there's an issue you have to confront, in why were you wrong. That requires self-examination, and likely self-correction. This can require changing an entire world-view, which is HARD. It is often easier to deny to great lengths than to self-examine and change one's own belief system.

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Zardnaar said:

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Cheese defense. We missed a couple of slices but the idea accounts for that.

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Hussar said:

I said this before, but, so much of the anti-masking movement is an offshoot of how western cultures have made expertise a bad word. Doesn't really matter what the issue happens to be. If you have years of experiences and education, you don't know anything. But, you're an average guy on the street with zero experience and education? Oh, hell, you know everything there is to know on the topic.

Doesn't matter if it's climate change, social issues or now Covid, it's the same story over and over again.

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Zardnaar said:

It's because of ideology. One group tends to ignore hard science the other soft sciences.

Gone from A+B=C to C ergo everything =C.

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Garthanos said:

Not thinking it is clear cut
Anti GMO and believes in crystal healing and thinks maybe the placebo effect is "real" magic.
On the other hand anti-climate change and anti-mask, sometimes anti-evolution and anti-gender dysphoria.

Anti nuclear and anti-vaccine you might be either turns out though it started on the left.

Not even thinking it is well defined... there are Mormons who practice "witchcraft" which would be considered very right wing in genera but at the same time every herbalism etc on their plate are lefty fairy tale source material.

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