moving on

After a lengthy and useful series of links to ever-changing but always-certain declarations about the transmission and prevention of Covid, David Heinemeier Hansson concludes:

No wonder there’s a plea emerging for us all to just forget about the whole thing! Who could have known, right?! When we called Rogan a fascist science denier for daring to question whether imposing an experimental new vaccine on everyone and their children, it was all in good faith, so now that the science has proven much of that bunk, I think it’s best we just Forget & Forgive! Move on! Nothing to see!

Now I’m actually oddly enough inclined to agree. The world has been torn asunder by extremist convictions of the righteous way. The counter force to this might well actually be forgiveness. I choose to believe that many of the people who went totalitarian did so in good faith, or that it at least started there. But this only works if the lesson that The Science is not truth is integrated fully. That it’s a process for discovering and refining the truth, not the truth itself. It’s a process that often ends down blind alleys, and has to backtrack. A process that desperately needs the voice of an opposition to test, validate, and properly authenticate knowledge.

With the caveat that the dominant-culture people weren’t the only ones wrong about all this — even if they had the greatest power to shun and cancel — DHH makes an important point.