“It is not a mild infection, it is not a mild virus; it is a severe illness. And they kept on telling me they wish they’d known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family,” she said.
“It is not a mild infection, it is not a mild virus; it is a severe illness. And they kept on telling me they wish they’d known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family,” she said.
At the end of the day those people chose to believe some random blog over medical journals, university publications, and the advice of doctors. There is no other word for that than stupidity, algorithms or no.
Blaming stupidity itself fails to address those who seek to exploit it.
No matter the cause or effect, stupidity is the root of the problem. You can’t exploit a weakness that doesn’t exist.
Unfortunately, I was reading somewhere recently (I think it might have been a t-shirt?) that, “you can’t fix stupid.”