Zone1 Polemicisation and the Formation of Ideology.

[Mindful]

How to go from two weeks to crush the curve to flu season mask mandates forever.​

Apparently, UC Berkeley will now be imposing indefinite mask mandates during flu season on everyone who has not received a flu vaccine. It’s worth asking how we got to this point, where two weeks to crush the curve have become a permanent amorphous crusade against seasonal respiratory infections in general.

The question is related to another, much broader problem I like to puzzle over: Where, exactly, do political ideologies come from? How do they acquire their specific features? It would be good to know, because somewhere in the months following March 2020, an entire containment ideology emerged before our very eyes, complete with millions of committed adherents, well-defined leadership and thinkers, and a semi-stable list of core doctrines. At the very top of this list is the unshakeable belief that wearing a face mask is morally and hygienically laudable, even necessary if you wish to be a healthy and responsible human being. That sounds crazy, but it’s what these people believe, and the adherents of containment ideology will never stop masking and demanding mask mandates and making their children mask. It is for them a deep ideological commitment.

The distribution of containment ideology provides some clues as to what’s going on here. Highly politicised university campuses, particularly in the United States, are where the most extreme devotees are to be found. And the US in general has some of the most vocal containment ideologues in the world—people like Eric Feigl-Ding and Yaneer Bar-Yam. Somehow, places which have been subject to stricter and much more uniform restrictions, like Germany, have far fewer containment ideologues running around. It’s hard to imagine that any European country, even those which imposed some of the most strictly enforced mask mandates during the pandemic, would ever enact permanent rules like those envisioned by UC Berkeley administrators.

Polemicisation and the Formation of Ideology

How to go from two weeks to crush the curve to flu season mask mandates forever.

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[Donald H]

China's huge success on controlling the Covid epidemic was largely due to their long ago adopted mindset of taking sensible precautions. The wearing of masks was evident in several Asian countries well before Covid.

Now there are definite indications the the world's growing population will mandate sensible precautions, just as if there is an active pandemic.

Will America be the country that will resist the most of all countries?

And if so, then will there be logical consequences?

 

[JoeMoma]

What is

Polemicisation?​

 

[Mindful]

What is

Polemicisation?​

To write or deliver an argument; engage in disputation or controversy.

You know, like here.

 

[JoeMoma]

To write or deliver an argument; engage in disputation or controversy.

You know, like here.

thanks

 

[Donald H]

To write or deliver an argument; engage in disputation or controversy.

You know, like here.

Wrong.
Making the issue political.

 

[Mindful]

Wrong.
Making the issue political.

I was being sarcastic.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

thanks

It really has more to do with crafting dialogue as if there are only two opposing views rather than allowing for positions between two polar opposites.