Quote (Plaguefear @ Aug 10 2022 01:44am)
The right do not care about science or data, they just cherry pick whatever suits their preconceived notions.
That's why we need to protect the public from them.
Climate change is going to happen whether you believe in it or not.
Millions of dead Americans are not going to be any less dead if you keep covid denying, but many more may die if you get your way.
Sometimes you have to protect people from themselves.
Lockdowns and school closures championed by left-wing politicians resulted in hundreds of thousands of immediate excess deaths, and millions of years of lost schooling, which will drive poverty and health outcomes for a generation. We'll be experiencing the economic costs of lost production and inflation for years, which again, will drive poor health outcomes and more excess deaths.
All of this was foreseeable at the outset, and indeed many qualified epidemiologists and economics pointed it out. We need to do a deep dive and understand why so many left-wing politicians / bureaucrats got things so wrong.