I have been fucking s t r u g g l i n g to get through to some friends who have become convinced that there's nothing we can do about covid so we might as well move on, also somehow convinced that lockdowns could never work.
Suprise they also think China must be faking its data, like they can't handle the idea that we really could have saved most of those lives if we bothered trying.
Honestly I think it's like how 10 years ago all the libs were convinced Iran had a nuclear weapons program. Like there's a similar vagueness and uniformity that they get from everybody they talk to just agreeing about it. They've simply never considered whether there's any evidence at all to support it - everybody agrees about it it must be true.
We just had like 800 community cases here, New Zealand is not doing that amazing rn thanks to Omicron. People haven't been taking the lockdowns seriously in my experience.
I have been fucking s t r u g g l i n g to get through to some friends who have become convinced that there's nothing we can do about covid so we might as well move on, also somehow convinced that lockdowns could never work.
Suprise they also think China must be faking its data, like they can't handle the idea that we really could have saved most of those lives if we bothered trying.
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Honestly I think it's like how 10 years ago all the libs were convinced Iran had a nuclear weapons program. Like there's a similar vagueness and uniformity that they get from everybody they talk to just agreeing about it. They've simply never considered whether there's any evidence at all to support it - everybody agrees about it it must be true.
Bring up New Zealand. I'd say Taiwan too, but that type of person only trusts white countries.
I did bring up New Zealand honestly, I know better than to just talk about China with libs lol. Nothing I could do would penetrate their fortress.
We just had like 800 community cases here, New Zealand is not doing that amazing rn thanks to Omicron. People haven't been taking the lockdowns seriously in my experience.
1 death per 100 000 is doing pretty amazing
Don't get me wrong, up until now the administration has done a good job, I'm just cynical about our continued ability to keep it up.