Subreddits continue to blast Reddit for allowing bad Covid info.
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People still play Pokémon Go?
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Apparently part of the reason Cam Newton got cut is that he won’t get vaccinated. Have the deplorables finally found a black quarterback they can support?
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uhhh pokemon go grossed 1.3 billion dollars in 2020 so yeah
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Yeah see I don’t buy that this is the purpose at all, you don’t change anyone’s mind that way. The purpose, as others have said, is to laugh at conservatives. Which is fine, except that in their eagerness to turn this into another culture-war issue the media are clearly overstepping the mark in the level of certainty in most of the articles. Both these guys on Twitter have been active in exposing fraud in the ivermectin literature and are experts on the controversy:
https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1432286200321044481
https://twitter.com/K_Sheldrick/status/1416789285886304258
If it turns out that ivermectin does actually provide some modest benefit, even more people will quite reasonably conclude that the media are more interested in reifying conventional wisdom than in reporting the truth.
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Weaponizing news stories is more important than being completely accurate.
That’s fine, but as I said, I don’t buy that the tone taken by the media here is convincing anyone. And if you’re going to weaponize stories, you’d better be sure you’re not going to have to print humiliating corrections later, which everyone is totally going to have to do if ivermectin turns out to be useful.
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I have a feeling taking it as horse paste is likely less effective than it being delivered in a prescribed dose
Also, just because amphetamines may have a medical use, doesnt mean I should freebase meth if my doctor declines to give me a scrip for it.
And judges should not be practicing medicine from the bench.
Speaking of which:
https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1432360525938106374
Uhhhh… yeah no, I do not support that. Like most definitely not even on that information, but even less after reading this:
During a virtual meeting, Shapiro had asked Firlit whether she was vaccinated against COVID-19. She told him she had adverse reactions to vaccines in the past and was advised against getting the vaccine
(The judge later reversed his own order).
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The judge overstepped in that custody had nothing to do with this hearing. He changed it without the other parent asking for a change. In an actual custody dispute where one parent refuses to take a simple and reasonable step to protect the child who can’t be vaccinated, then I’m fine with this playing a large role in the judges decision. I’m not sure where I stand when the parent can’t be vaccinated due to a legitimate contraindication, but that simple fact makes the child less safe in that parents home.
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Huh? Social pressure is just about the only way to change peoples’ minds. You sure as heck can’t do it with facts.
Medical heritage, not vaccine hesitancy
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Right, I mean I don’t really believe it either, but I certainly don’t think it’s the place of a family court judge to be essentially ordering people to get vaccinated.
To give you an idea of how radical I think this is, I consider barring the unvaccinated from ICUs if they present with COVID to be a less radical idea than this.
You’re not trying to convince anyone on the other side. The point is to get your side emotionally involved in the idea of looking down on the other side and seeing them as the enemy.
Make use of the anchoring effect. You want people to be anchored to the idea that anti-vaxxers are dumbasses whose opinions should only be ridiculed and never respected. Even if you have to correct yourself later, the initial opinion formation is going to dominate. It’s a more powerful weapon if you give an extreme narrative and have to walk it back than if you start out with a more moderate tone.
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Yeah what if the right wing chuds start attacking the right wing media for being insufficiently right wing