there was a month there in 2020 where people rightly should

Posted on: July 11, 2022 at 08:57:21 CT

have been worried because there was only one study out by the english dude that basically said it was super contagious and super deadly. But within a couple months updated studies started hitting that it was super contagious and not deadly at all (unless you were super old or immunocompromised). By then it had become political and it was too late to have rational data based conversations. If you brought data up in front of a people of a certain political persuasion regardless of their intelligence you would be labeled a science denier or an idiot. Or even worse if you brought it up in front of a subset of a certain other political persuasion you might risk hearing about magnets and trackers in the covid shots. Basically you just had to ride the political cycle out and after the election hope people would regain their rationality. To a large extent that's what happened. At the state level mandates started dropping days after the cycle. At the federal level they still beat the drum but I think they know it is a losing proposition so no real effort to ignore the data persists. The pettier side of me kind of wishes the people that raged against the data in the bastardized name of "science" would own their stupidity but that won't happen. The weird magnet and tracker people were never going to own up to their issues either.