The Great Whitewashing has begun, you see it popping up everywhere:
"Yes, but washing your hands does help against noroviruses that give you diarrhea"
"Yes, but face masks do prevent someone from spitting in your nose or coughing in your face"
"Yes, but within one and a half meters the aerosol concentration is sometimes higher than outside"
Etc. etc. We're not going to mean that, are we!?
This is called: "eliminating cognitive dissonance". You know that something is not right with your original argumentation but have trouble processing it. Then you start looking for other benefits – especially if you have mercilessly dismissed those who pointed it out to you much earlier and have worn them out as wappies, murderers or egoists. Then adjusting your point of view is all the more difficult.
Our state advisors also find out within sight of the port that they have poured their feet into a concrete block. I'm glad I'm not in their shoes now.
You could say: You make it easier for people to gradually - and therefore less conspicuously - change their opinion and eventually, through alternative arguments, arrive at an opposite point of view. That is a win.
Nevertheless, I am strongly opposed to justifying the ineffective, unsubstantiated and disastrous covid policy because it is good for something else! The abuses are far too serious for that. The childcare benefits scandal is a joke compared to the impact of health policy last year.
"Yes, those lockdowns and curfews may not have changed anything about corona, but they did prevent traffic accidents!!"
We're not going to mean that, are we!?
