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Paul Cassidy's avatar

I think it is quite possible that mRNA / DNA therapeutics (let’s not call them “vaccines” even with scare quotes) *may* in time prove to be good ideas that will morph into good technology that could address many previously intractable human conditions. What we have undoubtedly seen to date is the misapplication of an idea on a global scale before the idea was fit to become technology, with the consequences you correctly describe.

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jim peden's avatar

I think we're on the same page but I tend to disagree that communities don't change the world. It depends on how you use the concept of community.

I'm sure you'll agree that the world has been changed for the worse by the community of net-zero Covid zealots, the community of critical race theorists, and so on. They have been able to form such quasi-religious communities partly because of the speed of communication and partly because they have come to believe in 'scientism' having been uneducated in the unprecedented benefits of the Scientific Enlightenments and the Industrial and Agricultural revolutions.

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