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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: koan who wrote (476971)7/28/2021 12:26:23 PM
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>>This new Delta virus carries loads 1,000 times more than the original, so infected people shed much more virus.

Exactly my point - that is too abstract. We can't see viruses - it requires a type of belief. In some ways viruses are like the word of God. We believe it but have never verified it ourselves. To the uneducated - it is no different that believing in the Bible.

Of all the equipment I've used - a electron microscope is not amongst them so I can't "Testify!". However, I've never seen an X-ray star either despite using a telescope. I've seen lots of stars that can't be seen without a scope. I've seen craters on the moon that aren't visible without one.

We are dealing with a cognitive gap and a belief barrier - it is an inconvenient truth they are not prepared to think about because if they did they would have to consider all the other shit they believe without proof - we have to make it concrete. JMHO.
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