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Originally Posted by Strongside
But therein lies the human challenge. Minority and majority opinions and sentiment are literally being warped and changed daily. Every spike in the death rate, every dip in new cases, every new way the disease can be contracted, every potential mutation. It only kills old people. Now it’s killing kids. It’s been here since February. No, wait, maybe November. It lives for six days on surfaces. UV light can kill it.
We’d all be better off if we just swallowed our egos and admitted that none of us have a ****ing clue what’s going on.
The talking heads tell us one thing, the data tells us another. My opinion is the same as others, but not the same as yours. I feel I’m a majority and so does everyone else.
It’s a socioeconomic cluster **** on a scale like we’ve never seen.
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I don't really give a shit about what you feel; that's the problem: some of us are trying to debate facts, and others act like uninformed opinions have equal validity as data-driven research.
This is just an elaborate rationalization for ignorance and intellectual laziness. It reminds me of a bad student paper wherein the writer doesn't attempt to construct a counterargument because, "everyone has a bias."
There are a lot of things we don't know, but there are also a lot of things we can say definitively.
*We know that social distancing works. This has been proven in the past and with studies of the virus' spread after the initiation of lockdowns.
*We know that the virus is spread primarily through respiratory droplets and that fomite transmission is much less likely
*We know that mask wearing reduces transmission of the virus
*We have learned a lot about the pathophysiology of the disease, which allows clinicians to treat it better (proning, coagulopathies, cytokine storm)
*We know that risk is correlated with age and comorbidity
We don't yet know if we'll have a vaccine, and there are no therapeutic silver bullets, but to say that nobody knows anything speaks to a gargantuan level of ignorance that you're projecting onto the rest of the scientific community when it's really just your own.