Academics of the Oster variety will never self-analyze and consider humility. Her piece showed she's too far down the Covid abyss to have self-doubt.
She also said those of us who saw through the bull shit from the onset were 'lucky'. Of course, if her 'side' would have been right they'd call it 'science'. Or as they say, would have 'followed the science'. Whatever that means.
Our friends at McGill like to use that vapid phrase. 'Follow my nose! It always nose!"
There will be no amnesty without accountability. Many things need to be righted before we even move on to amnesty. And even then, it's not academics who should be offering it. It is us if we're ever to once and for all get a fair hearing and trial. The paternalistic arrogance in the piece left me unnerved. They simply don't get it.
Equally worrisome and somewhat correlated is the fact, you may have noticed, every governor and premier who imposed and inflicted highly unethical and largely illegal futile measures that violated human rights and fractured the civil order has been re-elected.
Let that sink in about the state of the masses and the role they played in their own pain.
I think that the amnesty piece is more troubling than we think I reckon. It cuts right to the heart of how they think. That can't be reasoned or debated with. Its dogmatic fervour is devoted to its position. Dislodging it is next to impossible.
Academics of the Oster variety will never self-analyze and consider humility. Her piece showed she's too far down the Covid abyss to have self-doubt.
She also said those of us who saw through the bull shit from the onset were 'lucky'. Of course, if her 'side' would have been right they'd call it 'science'. Or as they say, would have 'followed the science'. Whatever that means.
Our friends at McGill like to use that vapid phrase. 'Follow my nose! It always nose!"
There will be no amnesty without accountability. Many things need to be righted before we even move on to amnesty. And even then, it's not academics who should be offering it. It is us if we're ever to once and for all get a fair hearing and trial. The paternalistic arrogance in the piece left me unnerved. They simply don't get it.
Equally worrisome and somewhat correlated is the fact, you may have noticed, every governor and premier who imposed and inflicted highly unethical and largely illegal futile measures that violated human rights and fractured the civil order has been re-elected.
Let that sink in about the state of the masses and the role they played in their own pain.
Good points. It is always worse than I initially think it is.
I think that the amnesty piece is more troubling than we think I reckon. It cuts right to the heart of how they think. That can't be reasoned or debated with. Its dogmatic fervour is devoted to its position. Dislodging it is next to impossible.
Asheville is beautiful. I will absolutely stop by.
I appreciate the comment.