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Does anyone remember the tone of discussions during those early days of the outbreak in 2020? It provides a “lived experience” (as the currently “approved” language would say) that will always stay with me. The environment at The Cardboard was a perfect example. It is the one time in my life that I was conscious of being stuck in a crowd carrying pitchforks and torches. This article really brought me back to those feelings and reminds me today of how powerful the forces of groupthink can be. And there continue to be forces such as this arising out of topics today. The response at The Cardboard was to close down what was passing for “discussion” at that time. Disgusting, but maybe better than letting the anti-intellectual mob scene continue.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvard-tramples-the-truth
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COVID first appeared in the United States in early 2020 in large-ish numbers. The scale of the lockdown and the disinclination to entertain discussion, the shouting down on the Cardboard and elsewhere was sickening. In the four years since COVID appeared in large numbers, the USA has averaged about 300k deaths per year, according to the (likely) overwrought World-O-Meter, about 1/11th of 1% of the population.
Children, who went uneducated for a year or two, suffered greatly. Economic damage was severe. Social change was not positive or pleasant. This society handled the epidemic, IMHO, about as badly as it possibly could. I don’t mind getting pilloried on the Cardboard, or excoriated on other sites…but I am stunned at the inability of those who were dead-ass wrong to admit it.
BTW, without COVID, Trump gets re-elected. Just sayin’…
Audaces fortuna iuvat
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Yeah, I was banned on the cardboard for my opinions on the reaction to Covid (and that I ridiculed a certain Congresswoman for posting a tweet wishing Willie Mays a happy birthday with a picture of her with Willie McCovey). I’ve spent 35 years in the HVAC space and what the “experts” were recommending was asinine. Of course our buddy OF was stating that Trump was intentionally killing people with his response so he could get reelected. . . .
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