<div dir="ltr">Unfortunately, along with our rugged individualism, the US also has a very long history of apocalypse religions, conspiracy theorists, and other cults. It appears to be in our cultural DNA.<div><br></div><div>It is disheartening to read this kind of statistic (along with the ones on how many Americans consider the theory of evolution to be valid). I don't know if there are any flaws in the survey methodology, but I would expect not.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm also all for people making their own choices on navigating the current CV-19 situation and going out, but I am disappointed to see all of the anti-mask rhetoric as some kind of revolt against the lockdowns. The masks for me are a no brainer, although I am against mandates requiring them. I just don't see any downside to mask wearing in this situation, especially when it seems to be a common behavior in places that have done a better job of slowing the spread. Unfortunately both the corrupt WHO and our own government have given earlier conflicting information on them which has created further mistrust.</div><div><br></div><div>OTOH, I am completely against this contact tracing nonsense that is being tied to reopenings, and adding more government workers to suck at the taxpayer teat as part of it.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 12:28 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Once again I am very wrong about people. Maybe I should have stuck with using my music degree. Surveys show that about 30% of Americans believe that a vaccine exists but it is being withheld, and that a cure for the virus exists but is being withheld.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Now if true these would be earth-shaking facts and Hell to pay. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I could not find estimates of what percentage of the people are often affected by Kruger-Dunning, but more and more I think it's alarmingly high - 30% above may be an underestimate. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">It make me wonder what would have happened if owning property was a prerequisite of voting.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div>
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