The most infuriating facet of the last two years are the folks who say, “What civil rights violations?”
Here was my response to an epidemiologist who made basically said that.
Epidemiologist asks, “What is it that we have “done”?
1. Violated rights en masse
2. Draconian interventions that don’t work
3. Millions of businesses dead
4. Crushed a billion livelihoods
5. Lockdown deaths
6. Developing world set back decade
7. Totalitarian push for censorship
And that was before vaccines brought even greater authoritarian attacks, including these alarming new-normal attitudes among your neighbors.
I’ve talked about one reason they don’t see these violations in an earlier Moment…
But another reason they don’t see it is much more mundane. They’ve been bathing for two years, 24/7, in hysteria-induced and hysteria-inducing Covid propaganda:
Like the taste of their own saliva, they cannot perceive it.
Perceptual adaptation is so strong it even underlies “turning Japanese.”
Japanese link is wrong. While I was googling the correct article, I ran across your pruney fingers theory. That was pretty cool! And I see it is in Wikipedia now.