If you are advocating for lockdowns, you are complicit in tearing families apart. You are complicit in inflicting untold suffering on millions of people around the world. You are complicit in casting the poorest and most vulnerable in our societies into even further grinding poverty. You are complicit in murder.
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Why struggle to explain when someone else has done a much better job of doing it (for you)? For those who still wonder where I stand this will explain it, so there is no further misunderstanding.
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The claims of the presenter in this video are highly problematic in many ways, and lacks ethical, sociological, scientific, epidemiological and medical validities. Unfortunately, I have neither the time nor the energy to list and explain in great details the multidimensional, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary researches and authoritative findings.
However, it suffices for me to state here that social and economic polarizations can further exacerbate the numerous issues of health and wealth, and such polarizations are increasing for the following reason: The USA is very much plagued in varying degrees by misinformation, disinformation, post-truth politics, demagoguery, plutocracy, oligarchy, ochlocracy, kleptocracy, narcissistic leadership, neoliberalism, globalization and anti-intellectualism.
Here are a few pertinent quotes about anti-Intellectualism:
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Isaac Asimov
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.”
George Orwell
“I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.”
Phil Plait
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