from Hacker News

'A case study in groupthink': were liberals wrong about the pandemic?

by c420 on 4/5/25, 5:13 PM with 8 comments

• by rhelz on 4/5/25, 6:10 PM

  I was living in an NYC apartment when the plague hit. Every day an ambulance would come up to our front door, and wheel away another one of my neighbors, feet first, never to be seen again.

  Then it was TWO ambulances a day.

  I will not abide being accused of "groupthink" by people who somehow convinced themselves that wearing a mask was useless during a plague which was spread from person to person by airborne particles of mucus.

  I saw with my own eyes what a big difference it made when people started wearing masks and getting vaccinated. The ambulances stopped coming to my front door.

  Enough of this endless spreading of propaganda-fu. Look at where it has gotten us. How much more damage to our government, economy, and civil society do you think we can take?

• by techpineapple on 4/5/25, 5:43 PM

  I feel like 50% of the criticism about “liberals” being wrong are valid, and the other 50% mask the different roles liberals and conservatives play in society.

  Like Fauci did what, at least if a year of his leadership under Trump? And then the is somehow gets retconned into liberals screwed everything up, and conservatives get to say I told you so? And now Fauci, who took his role under Reagen and led through at least 3 other Republican administrations is a liberal?

  We’ve gotten to this place where everyone is afraid to criticize them constant and endless stupidities of certain personalities on the right politicizing nearly everything about the pandemic to, “it’s all liberals fault”.