Direct link to Thatcher

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD [@PeterHotez]. (2021, December 15). Many thanks @Finneganporter while i predicted some of this, a part that caught me off guard in the pandemic was the rise of contrarian intellectuals from conservative think tanks or even Harvard Stanford so desperate for relevance they aligned themselves with far right extremists [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1471100070250508288

How cherry-picking science became the center of the anti-mask movement. (2022, February 14). Gothamist. https://gothamist.com

Andersen, K. (2022, January 25). The Anti-vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice to America. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/human-sacrifice-ritual-mass-vaccination/621355/

Is this a general feature of the conservative far right of constantly denying our humanity and care for each other?

Adam Bienkov. (2021, December 14). Conservative MP Desmond Swayne says the “carnage” on UK roads is “certainly killing more people than Covid at the moment”. For context there were just 1,460 deaths on British roads in the whole of 2020, compared to more than 4,000 deaths of people with Covid last month alone. Https://t.co/NVD6SxhTKB [Tweet]. @AdamBienkov. https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1470783359064358929

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 13). RT @peterdodds: Excess deaths are now above 900,000 in the US. Conservative estimate as reporting takes weeks to fill in: Https://cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1470436197935763456

Thoughts and prayers. A lot of thoughts and prayers. They buy in to emotions alright, to belief: sympathy & benevolence are reserved for the community, for those with moral caliber as high as theirs, while attempts to prepare & make better are regarded as too rational, destined to become rotting hinderments, unable to be improved or addressed; they believe in the perpetual constant & ongoing failure of the rational, and only in their own emotions.

Conservatives actively resist society allowing itself to prepare against ills or trying to improve the common welfare. It seems to trust only in it's ancestors & it's own superiority.

Mason, R., & Devlin, H. (2021, December 8). Boris Johnson rushes in Covid plan B amid Christmas party scandal. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/08/boris-johnson-plan-b-covid-measures-england-omicron-vaccine-passports-mask-wearing

Hignell, B., Saleemi, Z., & Valentini, E. (2021). The role of emotions on policy support and environmental advocacy. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/45pge

Tanase, L.-M., Kerr, J. R., Freeman, A. L. J., & Schneider, C. R. (2021). The effects of President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis on hoax beliefs and risk perceptions of the virus in the U.S. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/frxt8

Wales to press ahead with Covid pass plans despite calls to re-run vote | Wales | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved October 7, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/06/wales-press-ahead-covid-pass-plans-clubs-sporting-events

I wondered where the group from The Weekly Standard had gone... looks like most of them moved here during the Trump era.

Sadly, this site has no RSS feed...

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA. (2021, May 7). 6/ Many young Americans want to ‘wait & see.’ But they also want to do what their friends are doing. If you’re a teen or 20-something (or really anyone), be a role model! Take that selfie pic/video when you get vaccinated and post it online. Https://t.co/rB2zPmm4aK [Tweet]. @celinegounder. https://twitter.com/celinegounder/status/1390786119374184452

Tory billionaire bankrolled ‘herd immunity’ scientist who advised PM against lockdown | openDemocracy. (n.d.). Retrieved June 27, 2021, from https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/tory-billionaire-bankrolled-herd-immunity-scientist-who-advised-pm-against-lockdown/

Gugerty, L., Shreeves, M., & Dumessa, N. (2021). Biased belief updating in causal reasoning about COVID-19. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bfw76

Swenson, A. (2021, April 20). Study lacks evidence on masks, isn’t linked to Stanford. AP NEWS. https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-629043235973

It's interesting that Loeffler mentions increasing the overlooked conservative's vote-- it does make me wonder if her reaction would have been the same had she won. Furthermore, this is where Blow begins his examples of conservative leaders and their takes on recent election results (exemplification).

Times info@bylinetimes.com (https://bylinetimes.com/), Byline. „Cambridge Analytica Psychologist Advising Global COVID-19 Disinformation Network Linked to Nigel Farage and Conservative Party“. Byline Times, 2. Februar 2021. https://bylinetimes.com/2021/02/02/cambridge-analytica-psychologist-advising-global-covid-19-disinformation-network-linked-to-nigel-farage-and-conservative-party/.

(lazy checking)

Ecker, Ullrich, Brandon Sze, and Matthew Andreotta. ‘No Effect of Partisan Worldview on Corrections of Political Misinformation’, 20 August 2020. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bszm4.

Barrios, J. M., & Hochberg, Y. (2020). Risk Perception Through the Lens of Politics in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Working Paper No. 27008; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27008

Raihani, N., & de-Wit, L. (2020, April 21). Factors Associated With Concern, Behaviour & Policy Support in Response to SARS-CoV-2. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8jpzc

Bajak, A., & Howe, J. (2020, May 14). Opinion | A Study Said Covid Wasn’t That Deadly. The Right Seized It. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/opinion/coronavirus-research-misinformation.html

Kenward, B., & Brick, C. (2020, May 15). Even Conservative voters prefer the environment to be at the heart of post-COVID-19 economic reconstruction in the UK. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ebzhs

Lawson, A., & Kakkar, H. (2020, May 19). Of Pandemics, Politics, and Personality: The Role of Conscientiousness and Political Ideology in Sharing of Fake News. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ves5m

Pieper, D. (2020, May 1). Challenging social systems under the threat of pollution: Replication and extension of Eadeh and Chang (2019). Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/axbj4

Rosenfeld, D. L., & Tomiyama, A. J. (2020, April 22). Can a Pandemic Make People More Socially Conservative? Longitudinal Evidence from COVID-19. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zg7s4

Conway, L. G., III, Woodard, S. R., Zubrod, A., & Chan, L. (2020, April 13). Why are Conservatives Less Concerned about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) than Liberals? Testing Experiential Versus Political Explanations. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fgb84

Rosenfeld, D. L., Rothgerber, H., & Wilson, T. (2020, April 22). Politicizing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ideological Differences in Adherence to Social Distancing. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/k23cv

Rosenfeld, D. L. (2020, April 22). Political Ideology and the Outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jrpfd

Each and every word of this can be debated upon.

What comes under basic infrastructure?

• I presume everyone thinks about high investment hard infrastructure like roads, rail networks, fibre optic and electric lines, airports etc.

• Are public schools and colleges included?

• Are medicare and social safety nets counted as basic infrastructure?
• Is defining criteria of intellectual property and granting patents counted?
• What about public transportation?
• Funding early scientific research?

Or do we expect all of these to be funded through charity?

This is the second or third reference to this I've seen now in the past couple of months. I obviously need to read more Lakoff, though the general conceit rings true to me on its face.

Actually, this is an underestimate as the "25% of the worst affected reefs (the top quartile), losses of corals ranged from 83-99%." http://theconversation.com/how-much-coral-has-died-in-the-great-barrier-reefs-worst-bleaching-event-69494

this is interesting because Americans are very similar to people who live in El Salvador, there are a lot of similarities.

a social device for maintenance of the status quo