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Let's discuss empathy. Empathy is hard wired into human beings. It's the result of our evolved societal bonding where we survived because we recognised mutual advantage in pair bonding, cooperative child raising and forging close interpersonal connections. 
"Scientists recognise two kinds of empathy -- affective empathy and cognitive empathy -- and studies strongly suggest that babies experience both." parentingscience.com/do-babies-feel…
Newborns routinely become distressed when they hear other newborns cry. "Babies cry more when they hear the cries of a real infant" (Martin and Clark 1982; Sagi and Hoffman 1976; Simner 1971).
Just as scientists, researchers and amazing frontline medical staff come into their own, for balance, the gutter spews up weird motley clusters of anti vaxxers, 5G chemtrail alarmists, tinfoil hat wearers, and malignantly malicious haters of reason and rationality. #plandemic
The distinction is of temperature and action. Scientists are calm, rational, because of the scientific inference, always accepting of new information. They are also pragmatic: doing actual work, testing samples, constructing solutions, testing and discarding flawed results.
Or they are nurses and doctors on the frontline, tending the sick, soothing the anxious, putting aside their own panic, living to a code of ethical practice. They smile at danger and choose to be helpful. They are so generous and nice, it's almost annoying!
From a Note I posted on Facebook, 24 March 2014: The appearance today of Cardinal George Pell at the Royal Commission into Sexual abuse is revealing and shocking in presenting a man who, on the face of it, just doesn't seem to get it.
On the basis of his responses so far it begins to become obvious that Pell is a person whose psychology, temperament, and mentality renders him entirely indifferent to facts, data, or evidence of any kind.
He's in denial, would be the cliché to apply. More broadly he seems to be in some kind of deeply depressed emotional shut-down. "What data do you have?" when asked repeatedly by the commission brief, extracts little or no knowledge of anything at all about anything.
Professor John Mathews, esteemed epidemiologist & honorary professor at the University of Melbourne,who was the deputy chief medical officer during SARS and pandemic influenza planning in 2003, said with regards to all this talk of "herd immunity" the devil was in the detail.
Trust #Metta, that is "epidemiologist speak" for, "We have no fucking idea, anything could happen, and probably will, it usually does; we will have to count the bodies afterwards and subtract them from the survivors, then make a tentative summary of what that all meant."
