One of the things about being knowledgeable and informed about science is that it doesn’t mean a lot if our societies are run by people who aren’t or don’t believe in consulting those who do know. Or worse: actively work against scientific understanding
Living in Alberta, I know how this goes. I know that fossil fuels are accelerating our path to unlivable world, protections against infectious disease based in understanding of physics and occupational hygiene are important and that abortions and gender affirming care save lives
But Alberta has a government that doesn’t believe any of that/has decided to remain ignorant/chooses to believe something that is wrong/decided that profit is more important than those realities.
So I don’t get too smug about knowing all these things.
And I think this speaks to the trap in which many left-leaning people and liberals find themselves: merely being right seems like enough, even when the people who are wrong have the power.
So it goes to the reality: we can’t just say that things are “a pandemic of the unvaccinated” or “antivaxxers f around and find out” because it impacts all of us. And in the end, having knowledge doesn’t make us better than others; it just means that we were able to access it.
The other thing is that it is a reminder that science is always political.
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