Dana7360
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Yes, stupidity and selfishness for many trump people. But I think the problem is scarier than simple stupidity. They have been seriously gaslighted which is a mild word for brainwashed.
They join the ranks of scientologists, those who firmly believe the moon landings were fake, the earth is 6000 years old, Democrats who ate babies, Jim Jones and his Kool-Aid, flat-earthers, etc.
Even with intelligent people the human brain has an ingrained intellectual "defect" where beliefs short circuit the logic centers, so logical arguments simply don't work.
These ideas of foibles of the brain are covered in a great book,
The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer.
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I agree with you. The problem is that this time their stupidity has forced literally hundreds of thousands of people to die.
From the very beginning their selfishness caused people to not wear masks, not social distance and to cause the virus to spread. Now their selfishness has caused the delta variant to take hold in the United States and will cause new variants with even higher viral loads that render existing vaccines useless.
Their selfishness and stupidity causes them to be able to be gaslighted and brainwashed. Which is their choice but in this situation their stupidity and selfish choices are killing people, destroying our economy and could create a variant that is immune to vaccines.
If their stupidity and selfishness was contained to just themselves, I could careless.
The problem is that it isn't contained to just them.