• Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    I remember reading that there was a large percentage of Americans that considered the pandemic a “sign from god”. Now I’m no statistician, but I feel like there’s a large overlap between the people who thought that and the people who absolutely would not think it’s a sign negatively related to Trump, and would somehow justify the second one as a warning about those damn deep state liberals.

    Would be pretty hilarious though, if not for the innocent people who would suffer.

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      7 months ago

      There is a certain segment of society that thinks every natural event is a “sign from (their) god”.

      I do wonder how many of the same people that kept mindlessly repeating phrases like “gain of function! gain of function!” like good little parrots were ALSO saying the pandemic was a “sign from god”, though… 😂

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        7 months ago

        Wonder about the natural world is nice, but I’ve definitely seen people take it too far. One comment on here talked about how they saw miracles every day. Like they were hungry and found $20 in their jacket pocket. Or they were cold and the sun came out.

        That’s not a miracle. It’s just coincidence. You can’t say that everything is meaningful or nothing is.