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Originally Posted by suzzer99
So every time an elected representative says something, we require proof, or we can just ignore it if we want to? That's convenient.
You think the people staging maskless sitins at Cheesecake factories wouldn't attack hospital staff if their loved one was dying? You think those nutjobs in Dallas wouldn't attack hospital staff? May I refer to 1000s of videos on the internet of people getting violent when simply asked to wear a mask? You think those people wouldn't attack hospital staff?
A wise person once said: it is a fact of life that we hold ideas we would like to believe to a lower standard of proof than ideas we would like to disbelieve. In the former case we ask "Am I allowed to believe it?" and in the latter case we ask "Am I forced to believe it?"
Yeah I'll admit it, when an elected representative says something that makes total sense given all the available evidence, I tend to believe it. You on the other hand want to require incontrovertible truth for something that could pretty obviously be true.
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My stepdad's doc told us that his staff have been receiving death threats daily since summer, and have had to have escorts out of their building and to their cars after a nurse was followed to her car and assaulted.
And that's in ICU - I can't even imagine how nuts it is in the main part of the hospital's COVID wing.