The problem from the beginning has been with the data.
Where there has been useful data, it has been misused, distorted and suppressed.
Where there has been equivocal or distorted datasets, they've been used to advance one agenda or another.
The disappointment for me, David, has been that so many well-meaning folks have allowed themselves to remain "stuck" in emotional feedback loops, finding themselves unable to maintain a healthy skepticism.
I agree that this does not seem normal, but without a definition, "normal" is a meaningless term.
Honest autopsies would have told us a great deal, and we shouldn't need to speculate with generalizations to determine what is factual at the individual, granular level of analysis. nevertheless, here we are.
You shouldn't have had to make your eminently logical and practical statement regarding a baseline, and I shouldn't have to be in agreement about the need for it. This is what The Narrative has done for us all; created a hall of mirrors, a veil of illusion, a "fact-free zone" where all is argument and conjecture, deflection and thoughtless advocacy.
"we need a baseline for comparison"
Yes, we do.
The problem from the beginning has been with the data.
Where there has been useful data, it has been misused, distorted and suppressed.
Where there has been equivocal or distorted datasets, they've been used to advance one agenda or another.
The disappointment for me, David, has been that so many well-meaning folks have allowed themselves to remain "stuck" in emotional feedback loops, finding themselves unable to maintain a healthy skepticism.
I agree that this does not seem normal, but without a definition, "normal" is a meaningless term.
Honest autopsies would have told us a great deal, and we shouldn't need to speculate with generalizations to determine what is factual at the individual, granular level of analysis. nevertheless, here we are.
You shouldn't have had to make your eminently logical and practical statement regarding a baseline, and I shouldn't have to be in agreement about the need for it. This is what The Narrative has done for us all; created a hall of mirrors, a veil of illusion, a "fact-free zone" where all is argument and conjecture, deflection and thoughtless advocacy.
No amnesty.