You mean [lies] like Jussie Smollett?
He tried to pull a fast one. Fortunately he was caught.
Are you glad when right-wing liars are caught? Or do you even acknowledge that they exist?
Cloth masks stop viruses?
Cloth masks helped slow the spread of viruses. Ask the flu virus for the last couple of years.
2 weeks to slow the spread?
I think you're talking about Covid-19, right? (It's pretty vague.) The CDC did change it's recommendations as they learned more about the virus, but that's how science works. They aren't gods; they aren't perfect. They made their best recommendations, based on what they knew at the time and their best guesses. Guesses based on science and experience, trying to err on the side of caution. Not based on ignorance and pure conjecture.
Only 12 years, again, to save the planet?
I assume you are referring to global warming. Your ignorance is showing again. 12 years was the estimate that some scientists made of how long it would be before CO2 levels reached a point where it would start to seriously affect the worldwide climate and make it harder to survive. But that isn't a hard-and-fast line (unless we inadvertently passed a tipping point). It was just a good line-in-the-sand, a goal post where we can say that we don't want to be here.
Because you know what happens after we pass that point? Does everybody die? Of course not. We just now have to spend money to mitigate the effects of all that CO2,
along with trying to reduce our emissions of it. Because after we reach that goal post, if we do nothing,
it keeps getting worse. Droughts get worse; hurricanes get even more energy from the oceans; flooding gets worse; wildfires get worse. The ocean becomes even
more acidic. There is
no doubt all these things will happen, because we are already seeing them happen. Anyone who denies this simply is not living in the real world.
You demand that lies not be challenged, we can see that in pretty much any thread on this forum.
Please, challenge lies. But much of the time when people "challenge lies" on this forum, and elsewhere, they use lies to challenge the supposed lies.
When people don't vet what quote, when they don't ask questions and think about whether what they are saying is true, then they can see truth as lies, black as white, up as down. If you're not based in reality, eventually you'll go off a cliff. Which is fine, if you're the only one affected. But when you try to drag the rest of us with you...
When a government agency secretly works with mass media outlets to shape a narrative, yeah, that's a problem. You think it's a good thing. You think anything that challenges your bizarre ideology should be shut down, free speech be damned. Your lies are truths, my truths are your lies. Very Orwellian.
You mean like the way Fox News was working with the Trump Whitehouse to spread lies?
When the narrative doesn't fit the facts, I want to hear the facts, regardless of where they come from. Do you?
