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1. muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Oct-2021 11:19:55 UTC muesli

   In all fairness, this pandemic is as much one of a savage virus as it is one of illiterate people.

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Oct-2021 11:11:16 UTC muesli

     in reply to

     • Mr. Teatime

     @Mr_Teatime

     I agree. Also to be very clear, I'm (obviously!) not talking about illiterate people in the sense of someone not being able to read and/or write. That has little to do with it.

     I'm talking about people beyond logic and reasoning, unreachable by scientific arguments. People who refuse to learn, even though they got every opportunity to do so.

   • Mr. Teatime (mr_teatime@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Oct-2021 11:11:17 UTC Mr. Teatime

     in reply to

     • muesli

     @fribbledom
     I'd feel bad mentioning illiterate people without really really bad communications plus scientific illiteracy on politics' side of things.

     They used to be able to get away with superficially looking like they're doing something, but with a virus (or climate change), that act cannot last too long, and then things get awkward...

     that illiteracy has grown within an environment that supported it, is what I'm saying.

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Oct-2021 18:30:59 UTC muesli

     in reply to

     • Mr. Teatime
     • Dan Jones

     @danjones000 @Mr_Teatime

     Thank you, I might adopt that one 😄

   • Dan Jones (danjones000@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Oct-2021 18:31:09 UTC Dan Jones

     in reply to

     • muesli
     • Mr. Teatime

     @fribbledom @Mr_Teatime

     I like the term “willfully ignorant”