I don’t think problems with authority were what caused all the bullshit around COVID. It wasn’t neurodivergent/anti authority people causing problems, but anti-intellectual conservatives who saw inconvenience as oppression. Most of them were normies who couldn’t handle that the social norms they were used to needed to temporarily change to save lives, and had grifters willing to exploit their discomfort. It was a cultural phenomenon, not a personal one.
i’m of the opinion that willfully choosing to break a rule after being told why it exists would belong in a different category than not understanding why the rule exists and thus not being able to justify its relevancy.
there are too many systems with conflicting contradictory rules where following all of them is literally impossible and even neurotypicals have to cull instructions on the basis of relevancy as a result, after all…
The pandemic was something we didn’t deal with properly as a society, precisely because people were smeared and shamed for having questions and concerns (however valid).
We could’ve done better. We are less prepared as a society than we otherwise would’ve been if COVID didn’t become a partisan issue, with major experts (from my POV) doing everything they could to not alleviate and address concerns, instead encouraging a culture of fear and a culture of shaming and smearing people who question authority, with no shades of gray.
If experts encouraged and facilitated dialogue and education, if hospitals/businesses/etc. were held to account for not having proper stocks of PPE or other sensible mitigations to deal with a pandemic, if ventilation became a bigger concern for businesses to address… I could go on. Things could’ve been better.
They still can be better, especially if we welcome questions and concerns and address them fairly, instead of picking the most outrageous examples of questions and concerns, and acting as if anybody who questions the experts or authority (in a general sense) are just as outrageous or dangerous.
And what if they give you the reason and you don’t agree with it? Plenty of those guys around during COVID
I don’t think problems with authority were what caused all the bullshit around COVID. It wasn’t neurodivergent/anti authority people causing problems, but anti-intellectual conservatives who saw inconvenience as oppression. Most of them were normies who couldn’t handle that the social norms they were used to needed to temporarily change to save lives, and had grifters willing to exploit their discomfort. It was a cultural phenomenon, not a personal one.
i’m of the opinion that willfully choosing to break a rule after being told why it exists would belong in a different category than not understanding why the rule exists and thus not being able to justify its relevancy.
there are too many systems with conflicting contradictory rules where following all of them is literally impossible and even neurotypicals have to cull instructions on the basis of relevancy as a result, after all…
The pandemic was something we didn’t deal with properly as a society, precisely because people were smeared and shamed for having questions and concerns (however valid).
We could’ve done better. We are less prepared as a society than we otherwise would’ve been if COVID didn’t become a partisan issue, with major experts (from my POV) doing everything they could to not alleviate and address concerns, instead encouraging a culture of fear and a culture of shaming and smearing people who question authority, with no shades of gray.
If experts encouraged and facilitated dialogue and education, if hospitals/businesses/etc. were held to account for not having proper stocks of PPE or other sensible mitigations to deal with a pandemic, if ventilation became a bigger concern for businesses to address… I could go on. Things could’ve been better.
They still can be better, especially if we welcome questions and concerns and address them fairly, instead of picking the most outrageous examples of questions and concerns, and acting as if anybody who questions the experts or authority (in a general sense) are just as outrageous or dangerous.
Who are also anti choice when it comes to abortion.