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comment by Cumol
Cumol  ·  1427 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The red pill overlap

Except, I live in Germany and work for the university hospital. We get the internal numbers from the hospital and the other hospitals and I can see, to everybody surprise, they match the official numbers in the media.

If I look at the states, yeah, that's some clown fiesta where no one really knows where up or down is. But that doesn't interest me.

What messes me up that people in Germany are adopting weird QAnon conspiracies even though the ground is barren. It is really hard to argue against the policies and the data here.

This is what frustrates me. The data is clear and it is very easy to show what is happening. But at the end of the discussion the argument ends with "in my truth" (wtf does that even mean) or "the pharmaceutical industry" or "everything you learn at university is wrong".

So yeah, I get frustrated.