When people are working against the clock to save as many lives as possible and one guy is “visibly shaking” because he is worried about his privacy. How do you tell someone nicely that they might be a narcissist?
Better data improves the probability of "flattening the curve" to avoid overwhelming the health care system. Many lives can be saved if this can be achieved. In Italy they failed to do this, ran out of ventilators, and people are dying who would not otherwise be dying.
For another example, google "flattening the curve st louis vs philadelphia 1919 swine flu".
There are trying to measure how fast it is spreading in different areas so they can take appropriate counter measures to avoid overwhelming the health care system in those areas. i.e. "flattening the curve"
Yes they are terrible people too. But "the way they have treated women"? ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS? The women who participated in these extra-marital affairs are every bit as evil!
Invalid logic. It is not necessary for most if not all people to be corrupt for the same to be true of politicians.
Many people are gullible.
Many people are easily manipulated.
This is especially true of those who are young, and prone to adopt the ideology of the group. But yes, I do believe that a significant portion of the population possess the brain anomaly that manifests as narcissism and these people are more successful than others at climbing political hierarchies because they are unrestrained by conscience.
Mixed feelings.
On the one hand, we all know that most if not all politicians are corrupt, so the greater transparency that modern technology offers us to expose this truly does help to make the world a better place.
On the other hand, the constant obsessive search by one of the parties to discover “bombshells” from the other while turning a blind eye to the corruption of their own party is upsetting.
I cannot help but feel that this blind obsession to winning the zero sum game at any cost leads you to become the very thing that you are fighting against.
In a democracy, you don’t get to make the rules. The democratically elected government does. If you don’t want to suffer the fate of other tyrants, follow the rules like everyone else.