10-11-2021, 06:51 PM
My 2 Cents,
I would rather engage in conversation with those I disagree with, and I certainly am more patient with people that have been part of our community for a long time. When someone's first post here is full of lies though, it's just not productive.
I wouldn't say this is the first issue I've felt this strongly about. The anti-TMT crowd was also full of disinformation, and I would take every occasion to argue with those spreading it, online and in person. Online would usually degrade into them engaging in racist attacks or demanding to know my name, race, and home address. In person, after each falsehood I revealed they would fall back to another claim, then another, until they ran out and accused me of not being capable of understanding due to my privilege, etc.
I get the impression that the vaccine issue is more about political identity, but otherwise very similar to TMT. People on the extremes choose their camps and refuse to hear reason.
I consider myself open minded, but not to obvious BS. Pushing the"vaccinated spread Covid" line without acknowledging the great reduction vs unvaccinated, citing a year old study as proof the vaccines can't work, accusing the whole medical establishment of not knowing how to give a shot, saying no other vaccines require boosters (wtf?), claiming vaccination rates haven't changed from before to after Delta, implying vaccines are pointless in general... I could go on, but it's all crap.
I would rather engage in conversation with those I disagree with, and I certainly am more patient with people that have been part of our community for a long time. When someone's first post here is full of lies though, it's just not productive.
I wouldn't say this is the first issue I've felt this strongly about. The anti-TMT crowd was also full of disinformation, and I would take every occasion to argue with those spreading it, online and in person. Online would usually degrade into them engaging in racist attacks or demanding to know my name, race, and home address. In person, after each falsehood I revealed they would fall back to another claim, then another, until they ran out and accused me of not being capable of understanding due to my privilege, etc.
I get the impression that the vaccine issue is more about political identity, but otherwise very similar to TMT. People on the extremes choose their camps and refuse to hear reason.
I consider myself open minded, but not to obvious BS. Pushing the"vaccinated spread Covid" line without acknowledging the great reduction vs unvaccinated, citing a year old study as proof the vaccines can't work, accusing the whole medical establishment of not knowing how to give a shot, saying no other vaccines require boosters (wtf?), claiming vaccination rates haven't changed from before to after Delta, implying vaccines are pointless in general... I could go on, but it's all crap.