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Originally Posted by twister244
Maybe the reason people are even acting like this in the first place is BECAUSE this wasn't that bad of a pandemic. Had this thing been like the Spanish Flu, I am willing to bet everyone would be wearing their masks. The truth is people were smart enough to look past the politics and see the statistics and make their own risk assessments for themselves and those they love.
If people have the luxury to complain about wearing a mask during a pandemic, then the pandemic wasn't really that bad to begin with. I know that sounds horrible to try to downplay the lives lost, and it was bad.... but compared to other pandemics we have gone through over the centuries, this was nothing.....
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People? In this country? SMART?!?!?!?! You're kidding me, right? No, people weren't taking their own risk assessments about the pandemic, twister244. You know what most were doing? They were performing a political dance to show off their ideology! Nothing more, nothing less. You think the average American knows a damned thing about statistics? Seriously? You think the average American knows how to analyze the kinds of data which have been spread across all types of media non-stop for the past year? Seriously doubtful.
I think you give WAY too much credit to the average American. It was a political stunt for the most part, with Trumpers being by far the most likely to stay unmasked and/or bitch, moan and complain incessantly about them. If not Trumpers, the second faction is the younger age group who were only looking out for their own selfishness and inherent need to only do what's best for them and not for others around them.
This entire pandemic drama/novel we've lived through for about 15 months now has proven one thing to me: People are selfish, arrogant and generally pretty damned stupid. They generally only look out for their own self-interest and don't give a damn about society at large. We're woefully uneducated in both math (ie: statistics) AND science, and seem to do nothing more than worship the cult of personality.
Honestly, we're a pathetic race.
Aaron (Glowrock)