How can we possibly hope to resolve the pandemic in a way that benefits the ordinary people, if any discussion or questioning of the party line is not allowed anymore? Have I suddenly woken up back in the USSR?
Real science doesn’t have to censor other opinions.
You know, the studies can show anything other than the party line only if there is a culture of questioning the party line. Otherwise, the scholars are publishing praises to planned economy and condemning the "rotting West" while the plebs are queueing for bread. That was the fucking state of affairs in the USSR for decades, and the only reason the West didn't sink that low is that it had the culture of questioning the narrative, that so many people today are trying to destroy.
Maybe people are understanding now?
I think i prefer the mystery of human consciousness, but it would be interesting to snapshot the mind of a person that votes up or down on this story and explore the root system of that action.