I advocated lockdowns combined with strong social safety net protections and a thorough testing regime and the person still said "yeah but the other effects." When I pressed as to what effects, they said "well children won't be able to socialize." Like yeah.... that's bad, but you know what else can effect a child's mental health: mommy/daddy/granpa/grandma/etc dying from a totally preventable pathogen.... Jesus and this person is in "academia" doing anthro and shit....
I get yelled at every time I say this. More and more I think the only way out of this is a revolution, and it wouldn't be a clean one. Academics are mostly awful though. Thoroughly anti-proletarian people.
My dad has a philosophy PHD but doesn't understand Marxism for shit and is as lib as they come. Every time I mention I'm a communist, he just defaults to "BUT BUT BUT WHAT ABOUT THE USSR?"
It was good :chad-stalin:
Exactly. Next time he brings it up, I'll come ready with stats about their industrialization, life expectancy increases, and caloric intake compared to the USA at a similar timeframe.
Curious.
Just sucks cause he's usually actually really good about that shit, but the cold war brainworms got to him for sure when it comes to anything opposing capitalism.
No one is immune to propaganda!