They do not teach logic, critical thinking, or analysis in the public schools. They teach compliance and deferrence to appointed authority figures.
People are thought to ignore their instincts, gut feelings, and doubts and to blindly trust "the experts". Hence we get panic about the willfully unvaccinated.
Normalcy bias is powerful. I tried to talk to someone who was curious following that "QAnon" HBO doc and he couldn't accept that every single major institution in our lives have lied to us for decades. He said something along the lines of, "We have to have trust". Uh, no we don't, not if it means trusting evil and deceitful people who want to undermine our civilization and consume our children. He just couldn't take that mental leap. I hope I planted the seed nonetheless.
I'm about 10-14 years older than most of the students that I'm in class with. I used to work a "trade" job and hated it so much that I wanted to get a degree in a STEM field that would be completely different than my old job. Normally I would agree that most degrees are a waste of time, but I'm entering a field where a degree is still an entry requirement and that's not likely going away.
No kidding. While I agree with the general sentiment in this thread, the reality is more complicated for many of us.
I'm in school right now in a "blue" state. If I don't wear a mask on campus, I risk getting kicked out due to "endangering student health". College has an inertia to it in a way that mant jobs do not. I can't simply "quit" and turn up at a new school whenever I feel like it. I spent too much time and effort getting here to throw away now.
It's easy to sound tough and uncompromising on the internet but we can't ignore that people have different situations that they have to contend with.
I'd argue that there's a third possibility: Trump is being lied to by people he trusts and he doesn't know any better. He's no more of a medical expert than Gates is. It's not a happy thought because it comports with what Byrne was saying, and I'm very suspicious of Byrne... but nevertheless, it's an option to be considered.
Archive link from the post: https://archive.is/LU5y2
I had to stop after a few replies. It truly is "pearls before swine"; they cycle from outrage and personal attacks to faux-concern and back again. No citations, no links to any genuine rebuttals (because there are none), just an endless stream of projection and misdirection.
That was a great analogy about Saddam, by the way. Really puts things in perspective.
I've been suspicious of Byrne for a while. He has these wild doom-and-gloom stories about how Trump got bamboozled by everyone around him yet I don't see those stories corroborated by Flynn, Wood, Powell, etc. Somehow Byrne was at the center of everything but no one else ever speaks of him.
Many people, because many people idolize "travel" as one of the highest and noblest forms of human experiences.
My state is talking about mandating the COVID vaccine to return to college this fall. I wrote them in protest but I suspect that it will fall on deaf ears. I'll drop out before I take some experimental "vaccine" for a disease that nobody under 70 should fear.
Notice the casual slandering of "The South". Pseudo-intellectuals in the establishment Left love dumping on the South as the epitome of everything that is wrong with America. Consider that you're still allowed to mock southern accents as being indicative of low intelligence and jokes about incest in the south are still commonplace.
"It says right here in a book that you can't read that you need to pay me if you want your dead relative to go to Heaven. Trust me."