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I think what many people want now is for there to be no pandemic. It's easiest to convince people of things they really want to be true and there will always be those willing to persuade others the pandemic isn't real.
It's perhaps unsurprising that there are people now believing in all sorts of conspiracies revolving about the pandemic being faked or exaggerated or the responses unnecessary.
There must be a comfort in believing we could all just go back to normal.
There must be a comfort in believing we could all just go back to normal.
It's hard to convince people out of a belief that they really want to be true once they are invested in it. Evidence and facts aren't very effective and there are always people willing to provide different evidence.
All the people putting a smiling face emoji as their profile pictures and chanting hoax outside hospitals are still just humans muddling through in their own unhelpful ways.
Thinking about the way people build arguments. When the desire to believe comes first the factual arguments acumulate around it by convenience and can be picked up or dropped depending on their usefulness.
The use of shifting, contradictory, and conflicting arguments that results can be confusing.
Refute one argument enough and they will simply drop it and pick up another, even if it is contradictory to the first.
