COVID Testing & Object Permanence: Critical Thinking About COVID

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My sixth Critical Thinking about COVID video explores COVID testing and object permanence. Babies lack object permanence. When they can’t see something, they think it doesn’t exist. By our first birthday, we realize even when you not directly observe something, it still exists. Well, most of us do. Trump struggles with testing because he doesn’t want to believe there’s a problem. To him, testing is the problem. This twisted logic means he struggles with simple questions  like *why* someone might test positive for COVID.

Here are two cartoons from this video in 1920 x 1080 form:

Check out the full list of Critical Thinking About COVID videos on YouTube. Thanks to Prof. Melanie Trecek-King, Dr. Lori Byron, Dr. Robert Byron, and Dr. Elizabeth Del Buono for their feedback in the writing of this video.

2 Responses

  1. Sarah Latimer

    I incorporate more of your materials into my high school courses the more of it I see. Thank you for all your work! This one is a bit too brutal (baby diapers on Trump clinched it) for my high school audience, many of whose families are Trump supporters. I don’t shy away from the science, but I work hard to keep out of insulting others’ politics, at this level. Not that I think you ought to. Great video, keep it up, and I can totally use some of these cartoons. You are wonderful.

    • John Cook

      Fair comment. Most of my COVID videos are about general fallacies and misinformation. This one is more specific to Trump so hard to avoid making it specifically about his reasoning fallacies.

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