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  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,917 Standard Supporter
    I'd describe myself as a science type guy. Although I loved sports, I was always interested in science and I would read Scientific America in the library in junior high (which now is UnScientific America). Our supposed official scientific elite has so totally discredited themselves that I don't take anything they say with much seriousness. You just get dribs and dabs about cases presented in some uncohesive fashion. So, in some places cases are up. Who are these cases? How much more testing is occurring. People are traveling more and lots of places require a negative test to fly. How many are these cases? Are they in the under 40 year old category in which there is little risk of a serious illness? How is hospitalization and deaths in Japan? If vaccines work, why not require a vaccination for anyone in the Olympic Village (which I'm guessing is already the case). Had lunch at the Astoria Brewing Company yesterday. Staff was fanatically sterilizing every seat and table at which someone ate. CDC just said you don't get it from surfaces, but Oregon still requires this virtue signaling along with masks that don't work. Geezus we are phucked.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    hardhat said:


    What the fuck are we doing
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,561 Founders Club
  • Bob_C
    Bob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,268 Founders Club

    I'd describe myself as a science type guy. Although I loved sports, I was always interested in science and I would read Scientific America in the library in junior high (which now is UnScientific America). Our supposed official scientific elite has so totally discredited themselves that I don't take anything they say with much seriousness. You just get dribs and dabs about cases presented in some uncohesive fashion. So, in some places cases are up. Who are these cases? How much more testing is occurring. People are traveling more and lots of places require a negative test to fly. How many are these cases? Are they in the under 40 year old category in which there is little risk of a serious illness? How is hospitalization and deaths in Japan? If vaccines work, why not require a vaccination for anyone in the Olympic Village (which I'm guessing is already the case). Had lunch at the Astoria Brewing Company yesterday. Staff was fanatically sterilizing every seat and table at which someone ate. CDC just said you don't get it from surfaces, but Oregon still requires this virtue signaling along with masks that don't work. Geezus we are phucked.

    Nuanced data was always the answer if we actually cared about making coherent decisions on policy. What dictates making a test being required, how has that changed, how many new cases have symptoms, what is the severity of positive tests in terms of viral load, what is the average BMI of the new cases, hospitalizations, deaths, etc.

    Just saying more testing was the solution without actually grabbing any real data was always stupid.