I recently decided to try an old Greek form of divination: ask a question, walk to the market with ears plugged, and the first conversation you overhear once there contains the answer to the question. The question I asked was a simple one: I am being pushed by a deity to move somewhere very expensive to live by the end of 2025, and I asked "How will I be able to afford to live there?" I walked over to the mall (the closest to a public market I could find), and the first thing I overheard was someone say "Well, we know Covid wasn't the Black Death because rents are still too high," followed a moment later by the extremely dark joke from the conversation partner, "I still have hope for the vaccines."
I very much hope that I'm wrong, but it seems to me the answer is "Enough people will be dead rents will become reasonable." Everyone in my family, and almost all of my friends, took the vaccine. Over 90% of the population of my country took it, and the government pushed it hard enough I find it easy to believe those numbers.
I wrote this out planning to ask if you saw a flaw in this, but that would be a good case of motivated reasoning, wouldn't it? I asked a question, followed the procedure, and got a clear answer...
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Date: 2024-11-11 11:10 pm (UTC)I very much hope that I'm wrong, but it seems to me the answer is "Enough people will be dead rents will become reasonable." Everyone in my family, and almost all of my friends, took the vaccine. Over 90% of the population of my country took it, and the government pushed it hard enough I find it easy to believe those numbers.
I wrote this out planning to ask if you saw a flaw in this, but that would be a good case of motivated reasoning, wouldn't it? I asked a question, followed the procedure, and got a clear answer...