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Paratroopa1 posted...

Can we really be surprised that not everyone suddenly got on board with a total, sudden shift in direction? Can we really be surprised that a lot of people thought the entire thing was bullshit after that?

absolutely not surprised by it, which is why you've gotta just be up front that the lie happened. you've gotta validate the argument because it's more true than not and they saw it with their own eyes. the complete shift to "WEAR A MASK ALL THE TIME NO MATTER WHAT" is also nonsense, you've gotta make sure that in between is known. stuff like wear it in your own house, wear it while eating, wear it when nobody's around, etc are all things that'll make them balk, especially as they see people telling them to do that not do it at all.

Paratroopa1 posted...

But we were delusional and believed this thing wasn't going to get big.

no, this was another lie.
we - by we i mean officials and people keeping track of stuff going on in China - knew how fucked we were at the time. we just also knew there was nothing we could do about it so, to prevent a panic, people lied.

it was absolutely known, like we've gotten leaks from officials already proving they knew but honestly anybody who paid attention in Jan and Feb to China knew exactly what was coming and how fucked things were. people refuse to call it a pandemic despite having been one for months. to the extent that it turned into? no, but that we were completely fucked until fall where a risk of a second wave rising could occur? oh yeah, definitely.

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