Oddbean new post about login | logout Not really. Many people genuinely believed that this virus was terrible and fatal. And to some it was. Come at me but I choose not to be traumatised and see how good people protected their friends, family, neighbors. There are some who are bad and cowardly, and lessons were learnt. but many people are also very good people. The more people who see our good sides the better we will be as a society. Less outrage, less trauma. (Ducking for cover now).
You don’t need to duck but I couldn’t disagree with you more. People acted like nazis.
Some, but many did not.
Most people did and those that didn’t quietly went along with the regimes plans and machinations.
Most people have good intentions even as they are misinformed or simply unaware. Doesn’t mean they are nazis or even just disgusting. These are just projections.
You sound like you were probably on the wrong side during Covid.
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So glad I’m not America !
Don’t know what you mean.
Most people are asleep and unaware of what they're agreeing to.
But maybe content and focussed on family and living life. No shame in that.
“By and large, is the level in which you need to understand most things in order to make effective decisions. Whenever a big picture by in large statement is made and someone replies “not always” my instinctual reaction is that we’re probably about to dive into the weeds; that is a discussion of the exceptions rather than the rule and in the process we will lose site of the rule. To help people at Bridgewater avoid this time-waster, I often repeat this coined phrase: When you ask someone whether something is true and they tell you that it’s not totally true, it’s probably by in large true.” - Ray Dalio
I am not a philosophical woman, nor that articulate, but that’s just tripe to my simple brain. I experienced the COVID lockdown and saw what I saw. The OP does not resonate with my experience. It is a dark and angry take. It is a projection.
You’re wrong lol but prob triggered
Take your weak sauce red pulled pork drama elsewhere. Triggered? #GFY
99% have been controlled by the top 1% per always. The dim bulbs 💡 here seem to think they are somehow enlightened. Why? They chose to be further brainwashed during Covid and continue doing the top 1% bidding by furthering dividing humanity from one another. Many lack the empathy, basic decency & compassion. Beyond that, read how excited 😆 everyone is as if the original post is something new historically. Many online admitted to allowing theirselves to be divided by long term relationships, even family because of Covid. Well obviously 🙄, you haven’t read history. Even if they go back to Nixon in the USA they can see the corruption. If this is excessive outrage or trauma, I apologize but the ignorance, assumptions and lack of self awareness combined with self-accountability is beyond comprehension.
Doing an ‘us and them’ or diminishing those who disagree and grouping them as a ‘dim’ or ‘lacking self awareness’ mass group is simplistic I think. There is a myriad of variations in experiences and going black and white is a mental shortcut. For instance the term ‘sheeple’ is used in such a way. It isn’t good. I haven’t read a lot of history but I don’t think that would have been obvious to one who doesn’t know me though.
To clarify: I was speaking **specifically** about how many people replied to the original post as if it was some mind blowing 🤯 revelation. I always seek to see from all the colors even if my communication gets worse as I get tired 😂🙏
Ah okay 😊🙏
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The only good people I saw during covid were those that lost their jobs when they refused to get vaxxed. (And those who kept others from getting vaxxed.)
