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Title text: The vaccine stuff seems pretty simple. But if you take a closer look at the data, it's still simple, but bigger. And slightly blurry. Might need reading glasses.


Transcript[Cueball, White Hat and Megan walking]

Cueball: I try to meet people where they are, but I have such a hard time with anti-vaxxers.

[Zoom out; a tree to the right is visible]

Cueball: The pandemic brought with it so much confusing stuff.
Cueball: Ambiguous data, weird tradeoffs, disagreements, dilemmas, and uncertainty.

[Zoom in on Cueball]

Cueball: It just feels like a miracle that the best and most effective intervention to reduce suffering also turned out to be one of the easiest and simplest.
Cueball: That never happens!

[Cueball, White Hat and Megan sitting around the tree]

Cueball: I hate that people are working so hard to make it complicated when it's one of the few things in this world that isn't.


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[–] alvvayson@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fear + stupidity = conspiracy

Sadly, we have no cure for stupidity.

I guess the rest of us will need to figure out living in a world where we have conquered lions, bears, the Black Death and famine, but not yet the stupidity of our fellow countrymen.

[–] mounderfod@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The cure for "stupidity" is education :) Sadly this is being neglected in many countries

[–] e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The cure for ignorance is education. Even PhD-holders can be stupid.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The number of highly educated idiots is too damn high.

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