For those who enjoy comparing COVID to car crashes or whatever, be sure you account for all said car crashes happening at once in your calculations.
Ask yourself if a large percentage of your staff or the city were all in a car crash at the same time, if that might affect health care or society at large.
Imagine also that all you have to do is get stuck with a needle a couple of times to prevent car crash except a whole bunch of people are like "nah, I'll take my chances and I guess the rest of you should look out!!"
Imagine also that you've gotten the shot, except you shared an elevator with someone who didn't, and now you gave car crash to your kids as well as your friend with brittle bones. Also, your kids aren't allowed to wear a seatbelt yet.
Imagine having a heart attack except half the medics are out because they were in a car crash, and the ones that aren't are taking car of car crash victims. While trying to get medical assistance, you get into a car crash yourself.
Would also like to say that those still masking, being careful, etc. aren't "addicted" to the pandemic. When a minority decides to effectively crash their cars into anyone and everyone at random, with little stopping them, we resort to wearing airbags everywhere.
I personally would want anyone who decides they don't care if they crash their car into innocent bystanders to have to walk and lose the privilege of motorized transportation.
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Hey, know how Facebook understands that negativity gets the most traction and thus built themselves to leverage that fact? Do you suppose politicians who wear/say/do absolutely outrageous/dumb/offensive things understand this and leverage it too?? 🧐
Reminder: there’s always the option NOT to help them get top rankings.
“How can I get the conversation steered away from my shady behavior?”
“All those lawsuits and evil-doings are some other company! We’re Visage Tome and have no idea what you’re talking about. Yeah, that other company has no business being in control of the meta verse, but Visage Tome does!!”
“Update: Visage Tome is already in trouble for giving all your data to criminals and cataloguing everything you say and think without your consent. We are now called Countenance Volume until further notice.”
“Crap; you’re all catching on quickly. We’re now called um…Mug Binder. Yeah, Mug Binder. Until further notice.”
To the people inserting the "well if it was anonymized..." nugget into the narrative 1. like Trump and co give a flying f*ck about preserving anyone's privacy 2. having a list of email addresses + mental/physical conditions w/out names still enables evil-doers to target (contd)
people at their most personal and significant pain points and 3. there's a lot of stolen data out there that people with no scruples can match up to VA data.
My question too. Our school board was worrying about voting for a mandate because "people were saying" staff would quit, and probably also because headlines chose the most click-baity number over actual context.
👆 headlines that give false context also provide fake social proof, bolstering the resolve of someone who is succumbing to fear-based anti-science propaganda. Imagine the psychological impact of "dozens of" authority figures vs. what amounts to a teeny tiny percentage.
So strange, I don’t see a qualifier of “unless you’re at school,” or “unless you use a flimsy plastic barrier” next to the warning about indoor dining.
I feel like many school districts are approaching COVID mitigation as though COVID will follow their rules.
ie, COVID won’t infect anyone until 15 cumulative minutes have passed. COVID will only infect those who show symptoms and then choose to get tested all on their own. COVID takes a lunch break. COVID holds its breath when a kids puts their mask down.
COVID refuses to float in the air over flimsy plastic barriers. If a window is open today, COVID will see it and stay away tomorrow, so no need to make sure windows are open at all times.