I slept on this to make sure I felt the same in the cool light of morning.neandrewthal wrote: ↑Tue Nov 01, 2022 5:25 pm How can you forgive and forget when it's not even over? The Covidians in my neck of the woods won't even admit they got anything wrong and just keep going on about the latest incarnation of their narrative: the mass disabling event.
And sure, forgive people who pushed school closures in spring 2020. But 2021? I dunno man.
Or forgive the people who want me to wear a mask for the seasonal flu now?
Forgive someone who supported my being barred from my gym for refusing to provide private medical information? No fucking way. And before you call me bitter and resentful and say I need to let it go, approximately 0% of those people are sorry or even realize they made a mistake. This isn't an anti-vax extremist position. I am still fucking furious at the extremism enacted against me.
The people Emily Oster represents, those who made honest mistakes and regret them are an extremely tiny minority. I haven't personally met one in real life.
Fuck Emily Oster.
She's calling for an almost completely one sided amnesty. She wants an amnesty for herself, her friends, her allies and people she basically agrees with on 95% of topics. Don't worry though "We can leave out the willful purveyors of actual misinformation while forgiving the hard calls that people had no choice but to make with imperfect knowledge", which given her examples and non-examples is pretty clearly anyone she doesn't like or that advocated for opening up more than a week before she decided it was acceptable.
This isn't "let's let reasonable people on both sides move on", it's "let's let my side move on and everyone else stay shunned."
Also, "Given the amount of uncertainty, almost every position was taken on every topic. And on every topic, someone was eventually proved right, and someone else was proved wrong. In some instances, the right people were right for the wrong reasons. In other instances, they had a prescient understanding of the available information." No, fuck this. Some people were right faster and way more often. Other people weren't. Other people still aren't. This is a call to not Bayesian update on this information b/c Emily Oster doesn't like that it would make the people she thinks are smart/she likes look consistently slow to understanding, virtue-signalling (here specifically meaning they didn't speak the truth until it was socially acceptable to, but instead parroted outdated information to show their proper tribal allegiance) cretins.
"But most errors were made by people who were working in earnest for the good of society." WE ARE STILL FUNDING GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH. https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2022/10/20 ... -did-what/
Of course, people did what they felt was right and worked for the good of society, but they often engaged in unforgivably stupid benefit only analysis and derided people that called for cost/benefit analysis. Now she wants a free pass for them, but only the "thems" firmly in her tribe. That's not an amnesty, that's the victors writing history.