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Originally Posted by cjd
These are socially destructive. .
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Do you find any of the responses to the virus that have taken place socially destructive?
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Originally Posted by cjd
Yet in refusing proven safe (if sometimes inconvenient) countermeasures, a large group are in fact dismissing facts.
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Being proven "safe" and being proven effective are two very different things. Some countermeasures are safe, some are debateably not. Some countermeasures are useless, some have a small degree of effectiveness, and some are very effective. You simply can't make blanket statements like that. For a countermeasure to be worth implementing, much less mandated, it needs to be proven to be very safe and at least significantly effective. I am NOT saying the vaccine(s) do not meet that bar. Masks, plexiglass barriers, specific distancing guidelines...there is room for debate there.
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In doing so, they are making all the fallout that much more prolonged while railing against that very thing.
Debating whether we're counting deaths right is just... I don't even have the words.
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The whole POINT of most responses to Covid has been to "prolong" the "fallout" ... "flatten the curve"...spread it out over time so as n9t to overwhelm the health care system. It would have been brutal and I'm not suggesting that doing nothing should even have been consiidered as an option, but if we HAD done nothing this would have all been over a year ago. Our responses have prolonged the fallout. Hopefully, in the prolonging of it, we have also minimized the fallout. THAT should be the goal.
As far as the debate over accurate recording of data, regardless of how heart-breaking or distasteful that process may be, that's how science works. If we are more interested in feelings than accuracy, then our research and conclusions will always be flawed, at least in areas where data is important...and I can't think of a branch of science where it isn't.