About to unfollow one of the big covid posters here. This just isn't a problem with individual-level solutions and to the extent that their posting is ONLY about that, it's basically doing a disservice IMO (even if the research-sharing is good)
@inquiline It's the hysterical framing and cherrypicking of science i see from the people who are forming what's starting to amount to a cult around this. At a certain point, it's no more cult-like and unscientific in approach than the deniers (I get it that most people aren't that educated about science and that a lot of people have found community via this, so I try to be kind about it, but the refusal to not be pseudoscientific gets a bit much and negates their whole message eventually.
*I say this as someone who still masks in public most of the time and who masked up for friends with autoimmune disorders before the pandemic too. If they're making me exhausted with them, I can only imagine how other people see them as being not terribly credible.
(I know I have complained about this before, sorry.
But the framing "did you get this life-threatening disease that causes brain damage bc you think it's NBD? here's why that's a bad decision!" is lacking. If people really are making that "decision" and it's bad, why are they doing so, en masse, hm?)
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