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Originally Posted by Opie
Show me where I said any of those things. I'll wait.
And I don't smoke...never had, and have previously had all necessary, standard vaccines. I don't get the flu vaccine because of a severe reaction to it previously...and I hardly ever get sick.
Stop sounding like a pompous authority on my health.
What made this worse wasn't ignorance by a previous administration. It was, and is because of the constant, incoherent changing of information by our so-called expert on infectious diseases that has back tracked, changed direction and contradicted himself so many times no one know who to trust. Less intrusive approaches to virus prevention were adopted by other areas and had similar, if not better, infection rates.
The science says the virus is survivable by 99.x% of the population, and current reports from the CDC say the Covid vaccine appears to be safe for 99.x% of the population. I have an equal chance of dying from either.
See the data yourself on deaths related to Covid vaccines since January 2021 here.
Source: https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html |
Maybe this will be a poor example.
But you rebuild cars, right?
At some point years ago you probably didn't know very much about the cars you rebuild now.
Maybe the first couple times, you screwed up on something. Maybe you didn't realize something needed a certain tolerance to hold up or ft/lb of torque, etc.
If you posted on forums about your builds at the time, you probably would have said what you did and that it "worked" (I don't know if you did or not), only to later do more builds or whatever and find out there were better, safer ways to do things.
Now you write up a new post about the process, which contradicts what you said earlier.
But people say they don't care about your write-ups anymore because you've changed how you did things since the first time.
Obviously that doesn't affect people on nearly the same level.
But you must agree that when you go through an empirical learning experience with multiple iterations of new discoveries and attempts and results, you find better ways to work the problems, right? And come out with a better build?
Why can't you apply this same logic to the researchers who didn't know much about the virus but slowly iterated on their knowledge as time went on, more patients got it, etc.?
I don't feel as strongly as everybody in here so this is just a purely honest question.
And FWIW, the most primitive example of this is when you're a baby and grow up. You learn so many things by iterating on situations you've come across. No person is born an expert on the world who cannot ever find something to improve upon. A kid sometimes needs to touch a hot object to realize it'll burn them and decide to never do that again.