"Science, Politics, And COVID: Will Truth Prevail?"

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  1. Pycckia

    Pycckia Well-Known Member

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    When should one reject medical science if not for its failure to make accurate predictions?
     
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    Pycckia Well-Known Member

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    I don't think their recommendations have reduced the problem very much if at all. It spread out the time frame, perhaps, but not enough to make a big difference in mortality.

    Back in May I estimated 700,000 deaths from COVID absent a vaccine based on CDC's estimate of mortality and the percentage needed for herd immunity.
     
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    How do you know they weren't accurate? As I pointed out, they are conditioned on a particular behavior pattern. Other factors may have entered for some reason not available at the time.

    Fortunately, our behavior does change. And, that is a key reason for the very existence of the CDC. It helps us to know how to change.
     
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    I really don't care what you estimated. If you want to point to some actual science and make some point based on that, fine.

    Spreading COVID out over time was a major benefit, because our hospitals were overloaded, the bodies were stacking up in the morgues, and time was absolutely required in figuring out best practices for treating patients with this disease as well as for getting national response in place.

    Spreading it out was a key objective.
     
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    My bad. I should have never used MSNBC as a source.
    But no it was a mask mandate.
    Mask Mandates Help Slow Coronavirus Spread, CDC Study Finds : Shots - Health News : NPR

    I don't think anyone has said masks alone are a silver bullet. But I'm happy that you admit it is another tool in the toolbox.
    The race is on between mitigation efforts, vaccine and variants right now. Don't put the hex on it. :)
     
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    Or to reexamine how and why the prediction was made which is really all that science does
     
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    We have paid a painful price for government's involvement in this pandemic. Government should provide information and, if possible, shorten the approval time of vaccines as we have done. It should never be allowed to affect people's private lives directly. It is authoritarian.
     

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