Posted: Fri May 1, 2020 8:31pm
Renake wrote on Fri May 1, 2020 8:01pm:
You are so scared........I feel realy sorry for you Jack. But I think there's something more going on. Is thinking already forbidden? Sometimes it's good to think out of the box en check the facts😉.
"Checking the facts" is fine - no, it's good - better than good, I wish MORE people "checked facts"; What isn't OK really is posting .... half-baked conspiracy theories with no backing except from some tinfoil-hat wearing "deliverer of the real truth" who in fact is merely voicing an opinion and drawing in all those poor souls so scared they will latch on to whatever fits in to their pre-conceived ideas.
The bit about Bill Gates was a prime example. Loads of theories abounding that he had already got a vaccine ready and was in fact the cause of this outbreak; (good old Bill, he's giving George Soros a break from being the arch-nemesis of ... everyone?); theories that 5G caused it (*snigger*); that it isn't a virus; that it IS a virus purposefully released (*snort, snigger, cough*); that it escaped from a lab; that it's the world governments working together to control "the people" (yeah ... that last one makes no sense at all in any way, shape or fashion)
There are people giving voice, telling everyone else to "wake up", "see the truth", "apply critical thinking" because they have read somewhere "on the internet" that Dr wossisname says that <insert conspiracy theory of choice>
The thing they all have in common is that the people pouring forth are the ones that need to "wake up, see the truth and apply critical thinking" because the one thing they are all doing is NOT thinking critically. They are jumping on someone elses fear bandwagon.
Sometimes, the world really is as simple as it appears. That is where Occam's Razor applies - the less assumptions you have to make about something, the more likely it is to be true.
A Coronavirus is one of a "group" of viruses that have transitioned from animals to Human. Sars-CoV-2 is a Novel Coronavirus, it has never been seen before. Solid scientific proof exists that it is NOT man made (because releasing a virus on purpose is a REALLY dumb idea anyway unless you want to risk taking out the people who released it ... mutation, its a bugger)
We are locked down, not so much to avoid catching it, because no matter what precautions we take, until a vaccine exists, there's a real likelihood we may contract it. The lockdown was to slow the spread, and to give health services a chance to cope; they have done so. The spread has slowed, and now we are entering de-escalation. As from tomorrow, you are no longer under "house arrest" and can go out and exercise.
Lockdown wasn't just about YOU though - it was also everyone around you. You may not care if you contract the disease ... but I'm fairly certain anyone who caught it from you would not be offering you their thanks