Will anyone hold the CDC accountable for its screwups? Even misinformation by Fox News pales in comparison to the travesty that was CDCs recommendation to remove mask mandates for vaccinated people. If purported expert agencies can’t suppress their politics and idiocy and be cautious why can we ever expect the public to be careful?
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#22So the entire delta-has-same-transmissibility-regardless-of-vaccination panic is from 145 cases in Massachusetts, on a bullet point that confuses mean and median.
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#23"Acknowledge the war has changed" Maybe it has? For example, DC has reported 11 homicides since its last reported COVID death.
Well it’s a good thing homicides aren’t a contagious disease then right? If not it might be under the jurisdiction of the Center For Disease Control.
Google for 'gun violence epidemic' and you will find lots of high profile results pretending it is.
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#25Will anyone hold the CDC accountable for its screwups? Even misinformation by Fox News pales in comparison to the travesty that was CDCs recommendation to remove mask mandates for vaccinated people. If purported expert agencies can’t suppress their politics and idiocy and be cautious why can we ever expect the public to be careful?
Did comparable agencies around the world make different or similar decisions in similar situations?
Just because they were wrong doesn’t mean that they didn’t make the best decision possible with the available information and given circumstances.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
what's wrong with masked world? it helps stop the spread of other airborne diseases as well, it filters out (to some extent) the smog, facial recognition software has more trouble, so we regain at least some privacy...
The masks most people wear basically only diffuse sneezes and coughs which makes immediate droplet transfer lower. A piece of ordinary cloth on your face does not filter smog, does not prevent any airborne infection droplets from reaching you, essentially only lowers the chance of your cough hitting somebody else. You need an N95 or better to really do anything to protect yourself. Also even if you have a high grade…
This should help make it clear: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/368/6498/1422/F1....
Masks do more to protect others than they do you. Which is why we are safest when everyone wears a mask.
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#27"Acknowledge the war has changed" Maybe it has? For example, DC has reported 11 homicides since its last reported COVID death.
This is an unfair comparison because covid death reporting lags far behind other data
That excuse stopped working a long time ago. It has been said as a defense every time there is a scare. Remember when Texas removed the mask mandate? Mass death predicted. We waited 2 weeks. Deaths dropped. Remember the beach photos, complete with an interview with the grim reaper? The hospitals are going to overflow? How many times have we heard this? Yet we still continue to make the same apocalyptic predications, as though it's the first time. The hospitals are fine and the deaths are low. We flattened the curve long ago.
Look at the stats for yourself. 1 Covid death in the past 2 weeks in DC. Where they are now they are requiring masks even for the vaccinated and signaling lockdown. What about all the homicides? What about all the other causes of death? What about the rapidly accelerating income inequality as a result of lockdowns and mandates? What about the kids, who are extremely low risk, falling behind in school?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/washington-distr...
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
what's wrong with masked world? it helps stop the spread of other airborne diseases as well, it filters out (to some extent) the smog, facial recognition software has more trouble, so we regain at least some privacy...
The masks most people wear basically only diffuse sneezes and coughs which makes immediate droplet transfer lower. A piece of ordinary cloth on your face does not filter smog, does not prevent any airborne infection droplets from reaching you, essentially only lowers the chance of your cough hitting somebody else. You need an N95 or better to really do anything to protect yourself. Also even if you have a high grade…
in fact covering your face does protect you, only less effectively so. Even eyeglasses reduce the covid transmission rate noticeably. Every little helps and compounds.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
what's wrong with masked world? it helps stop the spread of other airborne diseases as well, it filters out (to some extent) the smog, facial recognition software has more trouble, so we regain at least some privacy...
> facial recognition software has more trouble Not really though.
sadness. Care to elaborate with a link perhaps?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
what's wrong with masked world? it helps stop the spread of other airborne diseases as well, it filters out (to some extent) the smog, facial recognition software has more trouble, so we regain at least some privacy...
Oh I don’t know, crushing depression, psychological atmosphere of fear, no biggy
If you think masks are depressing and fearful, just wait for the climate wars...