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Jim Davidson's avatar

The pursuit of the truth is vital. The pursuit of justice may be possible with any number of ideas about how illness spreads. It's important to keep an eye on the goals.

Yes, understanding the truth about illness is important. It's also important to have a way to reduce the attacks on people today, and if that requires political actions, having the acceptance of many people could be important. So it matters in that context how we pursue the truth. Alienating people who would otherwise help may be part of the point.

In the last few years the "flat earth" group seems to have inspired the "no virus" group to be more vocal. Good. There is also now a "nuclear weapons don't exist" group which is actually offensive to people who have lost relatives to the bomb tests. Scepticism is fine, but some people are rude.

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Monica Naja's avatar

Sorry to post yet another time, I was reading your post on “being a tyrant” - and I would just say that if the danish government had acted even a scintilla of that draconic as eg us or Canada (not to mention China, Australia or other places), I would also have been very much antipathetic towards those whom we elected to look out and take care of us citizens.

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