Brehus wrote:
I really want to know why you think Governments are trying to kill their economies over such a weak virus
I bet you ignore the question lol
There are people that are stuck with a belief, then work out justification to match with their belief.
An example is vaccines cause autism. I still run into people that firmly believe in this. Another example is flat-earthers: they believe the earth is flat. Another example is those claiming moon landing was faked. Another example is climate change deniers: despite all the CO2 data and historical temperature measurements back to dinosaur days (when CO2 level was high), they deny there is an increase in temperature. I mean, it's very simple: CO2 was high in the past, temperature was high in the past. CO2 went down (went underground) because of capture by plants and converted into coal or fossil fuel, and that's why we enjoy lower temperatures nowadays. You release CO2 back into the atmosphere, we go back to the temperatures of dinosaur days. No mystery there. Yet, certain people say the rise in temperature is just natural fluctuation, and will revert automatically. They would ignore all scientific data pointing contrary to their belief.
In the past, there were also people that believed that you needed to sacrifice human lives to order please the gods. It was a common practice across the world. People also believed the earth was the center of the universe, and Galileo went to inquisition for that. We look back at all that, and we wonder how in the world could someone choose those believes. Yet, the same mistakes are being made today. For instance, masks. Because of the cultural bias from the West, WHO and CDC both claimed that masks won't help common folks from catching COVID-19. The end result is that the top-30 list in active COVID-19 cases is mostly occupied by Caucasian-dominant countries now, and soon will be exclusively occupied by these countries. (Both China and Korea are trending down, Japan is stable but expected to trend down, too.) Despite this fact, you still see people out there claiming that masks are not helpful and not needed. The thing is, if WHO/CDC have told people masks do help, and have taught people how to make their own masks, COVID-19 would have disappeared already from the planet weeks ago. Such a cheap and simple solution, yet, because of a cultural bias, so many countries are in lockdown, and the economy is shattered. One simple lie, and the world went up in flames.
Why do people choose to be irrational? Learning disability, I guess. Same thing with how to raise autistic children. The problem has never been with autism. The problem has always been with the adults not knowing how to raise their autistic children. You tell those adults how to do things, and they won't listen. And then, they suffer, they whine, they cry, they beg for help. Yet, they refuse to learn, they refuse to acquire skills. They mount mockeries again and again. What can you do?
As my paleontologist friend has told me once: "The destiny of all species is extinction." You look at all the irrational behaviors of people, and you start to think that Mother Nature may have a point.
21 Mar 2020, 11:43 am
