I accept your back-peddle, but that doesn't answer my question. I am honestly curious.
I have noticed that when people are emotionally inflamed about a subject they tend to lose objectivity, gravitate towards like-minded opinions, and selectively pick at certain data. When that selectivity demands data that isn't available the gap will be filled with an assumption.
On Reddit, which does not have a limitation upon negative vote totals, you can fine tune this behavior to study group dynamics, which is reflected in the comments.
What question? You asked "how is this different from the flu" and I answered.
If you want to know why I thought you weren't taking this seriously, it's probably because you're making an ill-informed comparison with the flu. The World Health Organization has already addressed how the two diseases are different on their twitter feed.
I never suggested in any way that these diseases were similar.
Why did you ask which question when you devoted a paragraph to answering it? It feels, and this is just my personal opinion, that you cannot read but you like to hear yourself talk. If that’s true, and it probably isn’t, then you either like to attack people for narcissism or you are just easily confused and embarrassed by it.
> You qualify your own speculation and immediately demand somebody else not do that.
There's no equivalence between making an inference about the meaning of your words and their implications (an inference I was clearly not the only one to make) and you trying to psychoanalyze me.
> I prefer to waste my time watching memes about people hoarding toilet paper.
Clearly you have plenty of time to waste. If you ever wish to return to the original discussion, I'm game.
I have noticed that when people are emotionally inflamed about a subject they tend to lose objectivity, gravitate towards like-minded opinions, and selectively pick at certain data. When that selectivity demands data that isn't available the gap will be filled with an assumption.
On Reddit, which does not have a limitation upon negative vote totals, you can fine tune this behavior to study group dynamics, which is reflected in the comments.