1. El Giro Hacia el Antivacunismo y las Teorías de la Conspiración.
Un tema recurrente es la observación de cómo numerosas figuras públicas, que antes se consideraban razonables, viraron hacia posturas antivacunas y teorías conspirativas durante la pandemia. Este cambio es a menudo descrito como una "ruptura mental" o una "radicalización" impulsada por el aislamiento y la exposición a desinformación en línea.
- B.i.n.g.o. Also, he is an anti-vaxxer and the pandemic proved how stupid that is. His ego couldnt take these hits, so he had a narcissist collapse and lost touch with reality.
- Something happened to his mind after the pandemic. He just went down the conspiracy lunatic road really quickly.
- I think hes one of the many covid casualties. Or at least the pandemic gave him an excuse to start saying the stuff out loud that he always thought.
- Pandemic completely broke his brain like so many. Guy went from a comedian and mma guy who just shot the shit with his friends to completely falling off the deep end.
- I think bill has lost his marbles. He seems to have unravelled since the pandemic. I think he has long-covid related dementia. Or. Hes just an asshole.
2. Desinformación Activa y Negación de la Ciencia.
Los comentarios critican fuertemente a aquellas personas que utilizaron sus plataformas para difundir información errónea sobre el COVID-19, desde minimizar la gravedad del virus hasta promover tratamientos no probados y burlarse de medidas de salud pública como el uso de mascarillas.
- He heavily mocked masking and harassed people suffering with aftereffects from a covid infection well into the pandemic, when the public messaging was still advising precautions. Hes a full-on nutterbutter.
- During the pandemic, he repeatedly appeared on fox news to promote unverified treatments like hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, leading to intense criticism.
- Prasad is an arrogant pos whos been spreading mis- and disinformation throughout the entire pandemic, and hes one of the reasons were still in this mess.
- He is a dangerous man with contact to conspiracy theories. During the pandemic, he made strange speeches.
- Also this guy was a major pandemic bullshit artist who traffics in sensationalism and doesnt stay in his lane as an expert, using his expertise in one area to make claims in others where he has no expertise and is often wrong.
3. El Cambio de Comportamiento Atribuido a un "Efecto Dunning-Kruger".
Varias citas apuntan a que la arrogancia intelectual y la falta de humildad llevaron a ciertas figuras, a menudo con experiencia en campos no relacionados, a creer que podían entender y comentar sobre la ciencia de la pandemia mejor que los propios expertos en salud pública y epidemiología.
- The pandemic really fucked him up. He had no expertise in public health, but felt like being a quant guy should make him an expert by default, and people not agreeing with him on that point just sent him into a bizarre radicalizing ego spiral.
- Iirc he claimed to be able to understand data about the pandemic better than epidemiologists and got butthurt when epidemiologists pointed out his rookie mistakes. As an epidemiologist, i enjoyed that part.
- Hes a great example of the dunning-kruger effect.
- I used to really enjoy reading his articles and 538 rip, but once the pandemic hit he kept wanting to be an expert on the topic for some reason despite having 0 credentials. He kept saying stupid shit, getting dunked on, and his ego wounds would get more obnoxious. Thats when i gave up on him.
- Dude was radicalized during the pandemic by virologists and epidemiologists on twitter suggesting there could be more nuance to their field of study than his excel files trying to rediscover sir models.
4. Consecuencias Personales y Profesionales (Pérdida de Respeto, Audiencia).
Los usuarios describen su proceso personal de decepción, pasando de ser seguidores a detractores debido a las acciones de estas figuras durante la pandemia. Esto a menudo resultó en la pérdida de respeto, la cancelación de suscripciones y la desvinculación total de su trabajo.
- I stopped watching him when he spent his time during covid pushing guests who blamed peoples existing health problems on making them weak in the face of the virus. And that good nutrition was the key to surviving the pandemic, not social distancing or masking or lockdowns.
- I quit watching back during the pandemic when he kept whining about catching covid after being vaccinated. Thats when i realized he was too stupid to waste any time on.
- I was out when his first special after the pandemic started was him just whining about masks. As if we dont already have enough anti disease prevention ppl roaming this earth.
- I joined that club during the pandemic when he was on the radio talking about his faith protecting him more than a vaccine or a mask. Fuck that guy forever.
- Lost much of his cheeky chappy charm in the uk when he became a very noisy anti mask, anti vax campaigner during the pandemic. This led to him becoming spokesman for any tin hat conspiracy going and generally led to his alienation from polite society.