Post by miscmisc on Apr 18, 2022 3:44:41 GMT 1
You know I've been ranting in this thread since Day One about charlatans and snake oil salesmen and grifters and so on mainly in economics/geopolitics/philosophy/social infrastructures, but this pandemic really took the whole thing to a new level.
Because with economics/geopolitics/social infrastructures/etc., despite these things being generally abstract, they at least try to obfuscate things and come up with good-looking arguments, usually sophist ones but semi-elaborate arguments nonetheless.
But look at those shit medical doctors and epidemiologists during this pandemic. They have been proven wrong over and over again, with such concrete numbers as hospitalizations and even *deaths*, yet they keep making the same pseudo-argument like fucking parrots no matter what, and people actually keep listening to the motherfuckers.
It's almost like people are simply waiting patiently for them to be right, for once.
Those motherfuckers declared the pandemic to be over in the beginning of 2021, some of them did even earlier in the summer of 2020! Remember?
We are broken, man. What the fuck is wrong with us? I know we tend to listen to what we wan to hear. But look at them! They were wrong all the fucking times. Crying wolves have no tears left. Why do they still even have a platform and megaphone at all?
I can't think of any other field where it only takes one occasion of being right to live in the royal castle happily ever after. And most of those idiots haven't even had that one occasion yet, and if BA.2 wave is going to be very small, they will run around shouting and calling themselves geniuses, forget about the previous trillion occasions where they were dead wrong. It's so egregious and stupid that I don't even want to talk about the broken clock being correct and all that.
All of this crap even though it's an issue that *directly* affects our health and lives. Literally lives of your parents and sometimes even yourself! I'm flabbergasted. You think you are pessimistic about the future of mankind, and events keep proving that you aren't pessimistic enough.
Because with economics/geopolitics/social infrastructures/etc., despite these things being generally abstract, they at least try to obfuscate things and come up with good-looking arguments, usually sophist ones but semi-elaborate arguments nonetheless.
But look at those shit medical doctors and epidemiologists during this pandemic. They have been proven wrong over and over again, with such concrete numbers as hospitalizations and even *deaths*, yet they keep making the same pseudo-argument like fucking parrots no matter what, and people actually keep listening to the motherfuckers.
It's almost like people are simply waiting patiently for them to be right, for once.
Those motherfuckers declared the pandemic to be over in the beginning of 2021, some of them did even earlier in the summer of 2020! Remember?
We are broken, man. What the fuck is wrong with us? I know we tend to listen to what we wan to hear. But look at them! They were wrong all the fucking times. Crying wolves have no tears left. Why do they still even have a platform and megaphone at all?
I can't think of any other field where it only takes one occasion of being right to live in the royal castle happily ever after. And most of those idiots haven't even had that one occasion yet, and if BA.2 wave is going to be very small, they will run around shouting and calling themselves geniuses, forget about the previous trillion occasions where they were dead wrong. It's so egregious and stupid that I don't even want to talk about the broken clock being correct and all that.
All of this crap even though it's an issue that *directly* affects our health and lives. Literally lives of your parents and sometimes even yourself! I'm flabbergasted. You think you are pessimistic about the future of mankind, and events keep proving that you aren't pessimistic enough.
