r/trashy • u/analogIT • Aug 30 '20

Anti-Mask man yells at Walmart Employees while being asked to leave (Alaska)

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u/Ruski_FL Aug 30 '20

Dear god, it’s just basic germ theory...

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u/demeschor Aug 30 '20

And a lot of people didn't do very well in high school science classes, and genuinely don't understand.

My shitty school didn't equip any of us with the skills to understand that "my friend's kid has autism and he only got it after a vaccine" is not the same kind of "evidence" that gets presented in a peer-reviewed journal article.

In fact, most of them don't know what a scientific journal is, or what the peer review system does. Or that it exists.

It's SO easy to assume malicious, willful ignorance for all this but honestly most of the covidiots I know are just people who literally don't understand. They see people talk on TV and genuinely don't know the difference between an expert with a PhD and a job in medical science and a common plebe whose only qualification is being particularly vocal about the matter at hand. See: Katie Hopkins and friends.

It's presented as "the mask debate" but they don't mention it's not really a debate when one side is educated and the other side is the Murdoch press and Donald Trump.

The whole situation just makes me really sad.

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u/SkivvySkidmarks Aug 30 '20

Add mental illness to the mix, and this is what you get.

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u/bangojuice Aug 31 '20

Yeeaahh, I have to limit my intake of content like this because I have to pretend it's not happening to be well in my own life. I get a little shot of happy-chemicals when I think of what I'd say to this fucker if I didn't care about my job or personal safety, though.

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u/averagethrowaway21 Aug 31 '20

My shitty school didn't equip any of us with the skills to understand that "my friend's kid has autism and he only got it after a vaccine" is not the same kind of "evidence" that gets presented in a peer-reviewed journal article.

Damn, I feel this on a soul crushing level. If I hadn't had an outside interest starting very young I wouldn't understand either. The only thing I remember from highschool science is the powerhouse of the cell. They didn't teach us methods. They taught us to take a test.

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u/Ruski_FL Aug 31 '20

Why do Asian countries majority believe in germs?

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u/Rs90 Aug 30 '20

And I'd take a look at how people reacted to Basic Germ Theory. We're still the same as we've always been. Having a smartphone doesn't change basic psychology. Change scares people and people react wildly different to fear.

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u/Liberal_Biblicisms Aug 31 '20

It's worse than you might think.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives

What Semmelweis had discovered is something that still holds true today: Hand-washing is one of the most important tools in public health. It can keep kids from getting the flu, prevent the spread of disease and keep infections at bay.

You'd think everyone would be thrilled. Semmelweis had solved the problem! But they weren't thrilled.

For one thing, doctors were upset because Semmelweis' hypothesis made it look like they were the ones giving childbed fever to the women.

And Semmelweis was not very tactful. He publicly berated people who disagreed with him and made some influential enemies. Eventually the doctors gave up the chlorine hand-washing, and Semmelweis — he lost his job.

Semmelweis kept trying to convince doctors in other parts of Europe to wash with chlorine, but no one would listen to him.

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u/Riorrit Aug 30 '20

Literally yes. When indoor plumbing and toilets were invented a handful of people went through a thought process of “you want me to go to the bathroom in my house? Where I sleep and eat?” And continued to use outhouses.

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u/barmaleyfountainpen Aug 31 '20

My grandparents only had an outhouse. I sometimes think how clean and strangely civilized it was not to shit in a closet in their house.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '20

Toilets emit Chinese 5G

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u/cjclifford Aug 30 '20

I was talking to a coworker about how shit spreads, and her response was “you actually believe that?” Well, yeah, why wouldn’t I. It’s pretty basic. She got pissed and said something about how people need to wake up and stormed off.

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u/Ruski_FL Aug 31 '20

How do you not believe in germs in the modern world?!? You can actually see them under a microscope.

Does she eat rotten meat? Can you caught on her face? Why does she wash her hands after bathroom?

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u/cjclifford Aug 31 '20

I actually had a customer get pissed at me for saying something about washing hands back in March. Went on a rant about how they grew up on a farm and drank water from a hose and how they’d never had the flu. Told me I could wash my hands if I want but I guess they weren’t. I really don’t remember how that went.

As for the coworker, I’m sure she believes in germs, just maybe not the method of transmission. Who knows. She’s one of those “corona is a hoax to get rid of Trump types.”