The Covid deniers out there and how to handle them.
Posted: Sat May 01, 2021 12:03 am
Ok, so recently hell has been on wheels and life has been extremely hard hitting personally. Stuck in a far away part of Cambodia under lockdown dealing with the death of my former girlfriend -she died in Phnom Penh- and it was just horrible trying to maintain care for her in her last days, I've maxed out my tolerance for b.s.. When an old friend from the states erroneously thought that I was asking for his Covid denier speech I hit the brakes and called him out on his b.s. and threw him off the team - permanently!
A little research on what some experts reason this denial mechanism out as and I felt a little better. I am not fishing for your thoughts on how Covid management is going wherever you are. There is plenty on that here on this board. I am talking about the readers out there and some of the public that just think this Covid thing is all made up, its a scam to control us or whatever the hell they think. I guess it does not really matter what the insane think but its the constant denial of facts that really overwhelm me. I just cant take them anymore and I have no time for it. I don't wish to refute you, its not possible to win an argument against stuck on stupid, but I found the following articles provoking and some to be constructive as tools to deal with these naysayers.
Christopher F. Schuetze NEW YORK TIMES
By Christopher F. Schuetze
April 28, 2021
BERLIN — Germany’s domestic intelligence service said on Wednesday that it would surveil members of the increasingly aggressive coronavirus denier movement because they posed a risk of undermining the state.
The movement — fueled in part by wild conspiracy theories — has grown from criticizing coronavirus lockdown measures and hygiene rules to targeting the state itself, its leaders, businesses, the press and globalism, to name a few. Over the past year, demonstrators have attacked police officers, defied civil authorities and in one widely publicized episode scaled the steps of Parliament.
“Our basic democratic order, as well as state institutions such as parliaments and governments, have faced multiple attacks since the beginning of the measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement confirming that parts of the denier movement would be under observation. The Interior Ministry oversees the intelligence agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
In announcing the decision to keep tabs on conspiracy theorists, intelligence officials noted the movement’s close ties to extremists like the Reichsbürger, a network of groups that refuse to accept the legitimacy of the modern German state.
And:
https://www.bbc.com/news/55825480 this should be click able.
Also good:
https://www.verywellmind.com/how-to-tal ... er-5089630
"People think that their party loyalty should determine whether they wear masks or not. We’re substituting scientific expertise with politics."
— EMMA FRANCES BLOOMFIELD, PHD
I m tired of cringing when I hear someone say that it is a conspiracy about so and so and then take the floor and go on at length while people actually listen.
Your experiences and thoughts here?
A little research on what some experts reason this denial mechanism out as and I felt a little better. I am not fishing for your thoughts on how Covid management is going wherever you are. There is plenty on that here on this board. I am talking about the readers out there and some of the public that just think this Covid thing is all made up, its a scam to control us or whatever the hell they think. I guess it does not really matter what the insane think but its the constant denial of facts that really overwhelm me. I just cant take them anymore and I have no time for it. I don't wish to refute you, its not possible to win an argument against stuck on stupid, but I found the following articles provoking and some to be constructive as tools to deal with these naysayers.
Christopher F. Schuetze NEW YORK TIMES
By Christopher F. Schuetze
April 28, 2021
BERLIN — Germany’s domestic intelligence service said on Wednesday that it would surveil members of the increasingly aggressive coronavirus denier movement because they posed a risk of undermining the state.
The movement — fueled in part by wild conspiracy theories — has grown from criticizing coronavirus lockdown measures and hygiene rules to targeting the state itself, its leaders, businesses, the press and globalism, to name a few. Over the past year, demonstrators have attacked police officers, defied civil authorities and in one widely publicized episode scaled the steps of Parliament.
“Our basic democratic order, as well as state institutions such as parliaments and governments, have faced multiple attacks since the beginning of the measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement confirming that parts of the denier movement would be under observation. The Interior Ministry oversees the intelligence agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
In announcing the decision to keep tabs on conspiracy theorists, intelligence officials noted the movement’s close ties to extremists like the Reichsbürger, a network of groups that refuse to accept the legitimacy of the modern German state.
And:
https://www.bbc.com/news/55825480 this should be click able.
Also good:
https://www.verywellmind.com/how-to-tal ... er-5089630
"People think that their party loyalty should determine whether they wear masks or not. We’re substituting scientific expertise with politics."
— EMMA FRANCES BLOOMFIELD, PHD
I m tired of cringing when I hear someone say that it is a conspiracy about so and so and then take the floor and go on at length while people actually listen.
Your experiences and thoughts here?