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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
As bad as I wanted it to be? Get the **** out of here.
Regarding conspiracy theories:
When the state tells medical examiners to stop disclosing causes of death and then separately fires the person who designed the dashboard for reporting information about the epidemic, posting information about that is not a conspiracy theory--it's disseminating news.
My stance on this entire pandemic has been pretty clear from the beginning--we need to be careful and patient. Pointing out very real problems with studies that have been published in haste is not forecasting doom, and informing people that data on the panacea of the week is incomplete is not being gloomy. When posters were in here arguing that we could never get the R0 low enough and we should just let the disease wash through, I was the one saying that we could get it below 1, and that these efforts were worth undertaking, not only to flatten the curve, but to show that the virus could be stamped out if we were diligent. When serology studies demonstrated that the lockdowns reduced R0 in France by 77%, it was me that posted that data. That's not doom and gloom. People need good information to best fight this disease. If people want to see me as pessimistic because I point out that a retrospective study without a control group that has serious methodological problems is not the gospel, then so be it--they need to understand that not all data is created equal. |
Wait, he thinks THESE are conspiracy theories? We've found the Lounge's new Taco John.
