Well, I guess you can also blame your buddy Donald J. Trump as he proposed "Operation Warp Speed" to quickly produce vaccines. Sorry if that doesn't fit into your many stereotypes.
I have been saying, that a statistical approach to reality, views reality, based on the exceptions, becoming the rule. In evolution, the fossils are the exception, relative to all living things that ever were. This default minor data of just using the fossils, is massaged by statistical math, which is the same math used in Casinos and gambling, focus groups, marketeers, and politics. The organic centric approach of biology makes it impossible to use the preponderance of all living data, that ever was, since all zillion examples changed over time. The water stayed the same. This is the key to a preponderance approach to life; simplified.
Winning is the exception in any casino, like fossils are the exception relative to all living things, ever. This exception to the rule, becoming the rule is what people are taught to believe, via mainstream living. We all may win the lottery. This is why I have such a hard time pointing it out, even to rational people. They assume this approach is fine, since this how the system works. They do not see any conceptual problems if all the leaders use it. Trump had to work in that system, since politics is addicted to it. If you depart, you can never win. Trump did what the science system asked and did it in record time. He by-passing the black box oracles of the bureaucracy, that sees the exception of disaster as the rule; foot drag. Trump saw the lessor of two evils and took the heat for them; Trump was the sacrifice to the bogeyman gods.
In the case of COVID, say we could make a set of rational laws for disease, similar to a disease version of the laws of physics. With this system we could have eliminates the worries of 90% of the people of the world, ahead of time. These 90% will not die, as the data now shows. A good system based on the majority being the rule would see this. This would eliminate the side effects due to adding worry, waste and stress to 7 billion extra people. We could then use the casino approach on the last 10%. This would lead to even better results, with more resources to fight a narrower battle front. This would be better, than the fantasy assumption of 100% at risk, under the casino math umbrella, when we only expect 1% fatality. What we have now seems backwoods witch doctoring. It is embarrassing to call that modern science. This always bothered me and needed an update.
However, there is a strong resistance to talking about any mostly rational approach to life, that does not make an exception the rule the lead actor; all must fear the bogeyman. The first approach could be rational, while the second is very emotional; fear. The black box opens the imagination to the irrational emotions; fear of Bogeyman or desire for Lady Luck.
The problem of healing the system is getting past the emotional baggage, connected to so much conditioning, via the whims of the gods; faith based on a black box. Separation of church and state should apply, since the actions of scaring all, do not rationally reflect the final data, but rather reflect the faith in a black box whim of the gods approach, that is not rational, but emotional and based on faith.
The Atheist rational logic, that sets religion apart from science, is the claims of religion, such as gods, cannot be proven by science. Therefore, these things; gods, are not connected to tangible reality, even if they are connected to the human imagination. This line between science and religion, can be described, in a more general sense, as fact versus fiction. God is assumed to be fiction, since the claim lacks hard proof but it is still possible in the imagination. People believe since there is an internal reinforcement.
Both fact and fiction can be conscious, but only fact can be proven in outward material reality. A fictional fact, such as a claim in a science fiction book, may be factual, relative to the plot of the story. Captain Kirk went to Star Fleet Academy. This is a plot fact, but it is not factual relative to being proven within tangible reality; the claim of teleportation. Teleportation can still occur in the mind and imagination, but not yet within the lab, even if reasonable and based on quantum physics, it is still emotional/intuitive fiction. We have never documented life elsewhere in the universe. This may be reasonable like the plot of a novel, but it is still fiction at this point in time. This is useful line in the sand.
I am trying to create a more general way to contrast religion and science, since many modern religions use the term gods as their loophole. Science assumes religions are more like fiction, in the sense of maybe a logical plot consistency, based on its own assumptions. But like fiction these are not easy to prove in the lab, such as the need to panic 100% of the world to yield 1%. That is a fact, but 99% fiction will b used again unless we straighten his out; novel religion. The Bible has at least 1% historical facts. Statistical based science may need to lose tax payer funding, and have to be treated as tax exempt like a church. This sounds scary, but the healing will change the world for better.
One topic in the news is the Transgender issue. The data says that about 98%; more or less, of humans remain true to their biological sexes; inner sense. Yet there is a Liberal push to make the term of the majority of the data; biological sex, taboo. You cannot mention the 98%, majority data, but you have to frame reality, based on less than 2%, which itself needs to broken down into its exceptions.
This is the type of mind set created by the foundation of all black box religions. If we take way the black box, this fiction does not hold up to science without the trick tool. It needs the black box and the voice of the odd makers. Therefore it is a religion, which is what makes it very compelling, like an instinct. We do have freedom of religion and one is free to worship, but the state cannot impose this religion, like it is trying to do. it cannot be funded or forced via DEI. Government cannot establish any novel religions based, on modern black box philosophy.
Fiction is often partly true, such as historical fiction. These are the most subtle black box religions. I like historical fiction in that you get to experience an accurate picture of an historical settings; War and Peace in 1812 Russia. The main characters and stories lines are fictional accounts of timeless human struggles, that are common to all human history. We can still relate. These archetypical struggles are woven into the factual details of the invasion of Napoleon. This style of religion can get very convoluted.
Science is supposed to be about just the facts, and should not allow the producers of science fiction, to weave fringe religion, into what appears to be accurate science background facts, if it appeals to emotions. There should be no tax payer funding for any Liberal churches. They can still exist in the free market, with other clever artistic offerings; science and historical fiction.
Reparations is a blend of science and historical fiction. Many of the slavey stories are solid data. The fiction that is woven is the knockoff from Bible of the idea of original sin, all the future is to blame for the actions of a few. That alone, make it a religion. The science fiction comes in based on skin color somehow able to transfer the guilt of original sin over time. How do pigment genes carry neural information? This may be possible in a fictional book, but where is the science data, beyond playing dice and cards in a black box?
