[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by DaFace

I just think that social media has dulled our ability to consider nuance in anything. Everyone feels some weird tribal need to be right all the time, and they exaggerate everything to try and prove a point. So you often end up with very reasonable questions that quickly become shit fests because people can't handle the grey areas.

The recent discussion from the Raiders vaccine mandate thread is one example. Will there be mandates about a booster shots in the future?

The answer is, "We don't know."

But instead of just leaving it at that, people conclude that, since it's possible in the future, there's no point in getting a vaccine now. Or they say that since immunity fades (which has some nugget of truth) the vaccines don't really help anything (which ignores the fact that the vaccines are still very effective at preventing serious illness for at least a year).

I could probably come up with a list of 20+ points where there's an answer in the middle somewhere, but every discussion you find about it tries to paint it in black and white.

This. Absolutely this.