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bdibs | 4 years ago

Has something like this happened before in history? Where we have the tools to avoid deaths both caused by COVID and the indirect deaths caused by a lack of healthcare capacity, but the people refuse to use them?

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sprafa|4 years ago

Obesity is a similar scourge, albeit it was not completely caused by misinformation.

Tbh I now see our society as a memetic organism and I think the cleansing of people who don’t understand reality is just a part of the process at this point.

proc0|4 years ago

> caused by misinformation

It's so deadly it requires misinformation to kill people? Why do you think it's taking years for the public to reach consensus, if this is such a threat?