New horizons in pseudoscience
Along with breaking all other previously unbreakable rules and laws, we've broken new ground in pseudoscience.

All the old characteristics of pseudoscience fit perfectly with the new pseudoscience of Public Death.

The old definitions DIDN'T include this one:

When "science" changes at a political boundary, it's pseudoscience.

Two of the classic examples of pseudoscience were based on political boundaries, but the rule wasn't given as such. Briefly in the early 1800s, Indiana ruled that Pi = 3.0 because the Old Testament said so. In the 1930s Lysenko was official science in Russia, while Darwin was official science elsewhere. The two examples are inconsistent because Indiana was wrong and Lysenko was right; but that doesn't change the basic point. The one state that rejected Pi was rejecting Pi for political reasons, not scientific reasons. The countries that rejected epigenetics were rejecting it for political reasons, not scientific reasons.

The new politically based rule is much more serious and deadly. In Wash and Ore and Calif we must wear suicide masks "because science". In Idaho and Montana and Nevada people can live without suicide masks because real science.

Real science doesn't change when new politicians are "elected". Real science doesn't change when you cross a border. Real viruses are the same everywhere. Real immunity is the same everywhere.

REALITY IS THE SAME EVERYWHERE.

Former real public health rules DID make use of borders, in an attempt to control the initial spread of a new epidemic. Immigrants and tourists from a known hot spot were carefully inspected and turned back if infected. Needless to say, we've completely reversed this rule as well. When this alleged "virus" was allegedly spreading "from China", WHO and CDC forced countries and states to AVOID the normal practice of halting travelers from China.

The new set of rules is perfectly evil in all directions. Create harmful borders and break helpful borders.
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