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Prepare for the ultimate gaslighting? - Leigha - Apr 12, 2020 https://forge.medium.com/prepare-for-the-ultimate-gaslighting-6a8ce3f0a0e0 After reading this article, I wonder if the author could be right. Guess we'll have to wait and see. . . RE: Prepare for the ultimate gaslighting? - Syne - Apr 12, 2020 The gaslighting is that all this economic destruction was necessary. That we couldn't just have the high-risk people shelter and the rest of us build herd immunity as fast as possible. Yes, plenty of people have skewed priorities. Plenty of people value brand names and distractions. But it's a myth that a natural world, undisturbed by people, is somehow better. It sounds more like an anti-natalist screed than sound reasoning. This article leaves out how the media, repeatedly caught lying, destroyed its own credibility. Or how the Obama administration depleted our stock of masks without replenishing them. Or even how 40,000 healthcare workers have been laid off because state governments declared elective medical procedures nonessential, and many hospitals only have enough patients to run at 50% capacity (that is not being filled by coronavirus patients). |