They trust the SCIENCE too much. You have to remember that people over 50 or so grew up in an era where medicine was literally a miracle. Antibiotics had wiped out previously crippling diseases which made the sexual revolution possible, and vaccination and hygiene campaigns made debilitating diseases "a thing of the past". Smallpox scars, dying of TB or syphillis at 30, your siblings dying of appendicitis or having lifelong issues from scarlet fever or polio - that was grandma's generation's problem, never gonna happen to me. "Curing cancer" was seen like going to the moon - a grand goal that was definitely around the corner from some egghead.
The idea that we can't just science our way out of an apocalypse with a shot or a pill is almost incomprehensible to a lot of older people, and the steps that we actually need to take to contain the pandemic feel like a step back into the dark ages.
The idea that we can’t just science our way out of an apocalypse with a shot or a pill is almost incomprehensible to a lot of older people, and the steps that we actually need to take [...] feel like a step back into the dark ages.
Exactly the same with climate change. "Fuck consuming less, geo-engineering will save us for sure".
Facts, the italian cuarentena comes from the black plague and the isolation for 40 days. We can’t even isolate for 15 days without Americans going bonkers.
They trust the SCIENCE too much. You have to remember that people over 50 or so grew up in an era where medicine was literally a miracle. Antibiotics had wiped out previously crippling diseases which made the sexual revolution possible, and vaccination and hygiene campaigns made debilitating diseases "a thing of the past". Smallpox scars, dying of TB or syphillis at 30, your siblings dying of appendicitis or having lifelong issues from scarlet fever or polio - that was grandma's generation's problem, never gonna happen to me. "Curing cancer" was seen like going to the moon - a grand goal that was definitely around the corner from some egghead.
The idea that we can't just science our way out of an apocalypse with a shot or a pill is almost incomprehensible to a lot of older people, and the steps that we actually need to take to contain the pandemic feel like a step back into the dark ages.
Exactly the same with climate change. "Fuck consuming less, geo-engineering will save us for sure".
Facts, the italian cuarentena comes from the black plague and the isolation for 40 days. We can’t even isolate for 15 days without Americans going bonkers.
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