KindaSkolarly wrote:"According to experts"? The expert Fauci said that wearing a mask makes no difference, then later he told people to wear one if it made them feel better. Wearing a mask to stop the virus is like trying to stop mosquitoes with chain link.
Fauci's advice has since changed. Both he and the CDC recommend wearing masks or cloth face coverings. If you consider that the virus is expelled by droplets of saliva when people speak or cough, it actually makes sense that wearing a face mask would restrict the amount of saliva droplets being expelled—and ultimately slow the spread of the virus. Right?
The CDC has never claimed that social distancing and wearing masks is a hundred percent effective. They are recommended only to slow the spread of the disease. And the data strongly suggest they are right.
from the CDC:
CDC is additionally advising the use of simple cloth face coverings to slow the spread of the virus and help people who may have the virus and do not know it from transmitting it to others.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nc ... cover.html
KindaSkolarly wrote:You people wanted to "follow the science," and we did. The Wuhan virus is just not that deadly.
It is deadly to a small percentage of people. Following the science did, in fact, flatten the curve and save lives. And with new cases and hospitalizations now dropping, the economy is now opening back up. Yay! Science!
No paranoid conpsiracy theories are required here.
KindaSkolarly wrote: Even when they financially incentivized hospitals to declare all un-tested but "suspected" admissions to be Wuhan, we still got flu-like rates. Drive-by shooting deaths are now being attributed to the virus, but even THAT kind of number inflation can't breathe life into the dead horse of the "Covid pandemic." You Covid science deniers remind me of the climate change people with their "settled science" bullshit. Leftists want social control for some reason, and you'll sacrifice anything, even the truth, to be dominated. I sneeze on your fake science.
You'll have to cite your sources that drive-by shootings are being attributed to coronavirus.
Otherwise, this is muddled thinking mixed in with a healthy dose of paranoia and fear of government. Do you deny climate change as well? I agree that the left's political agenda is sometimes mixed in with climate change, but that doesn't mean the science itself is wrong.
KindaSkolarly wrote:Coronavirus Propaganda Mimics War Propaganda
...So we are faced with a blizzard of new “facts” almost every day, most of which turn out to be only mildly true, extremely dubious, or plainly false . . .. . . Again, much of this is not true and not even intended to be true—but rather to influence public behavior and opinions.
The coronavirus is still not very well understood. This is the nature of science. Only through conjecture and observation, then studying and testing hypotheses, do we gradually come to understand more about the virus and the disease it causes.
The "blizzard of new facts" you speak of aren't usually facts at all, they are bits of partial information—and sometimes wrongly interpreted information—being disseminated constantly across the globe at the speed of light. The "media" is not a single organization with a united goal to disseminate leftist propaganda, but thousands and thousands of individual outlets, each trying to get your attention. And they do so by loudly latching on to every piece of new information and broadcasting it, often out of context and often sensationalized, all in an attempt to distinguish themselves from other media sources.
It is a well known fact that science reporting is not great. The news itself is often over-simplified for the masses, packaged and disseminated like Wonder Bread for undiscriminating consumers.
There's also plenty of propaganda—both on the left and the right.
This is where the term
caveat emptor comes in. The buyer alone is responsible for checking the quality and suitability of information before coming to firm conclusions. The science about coronoavirus is far from settled. But don't blame the science for the poor quality of the media coverage and the sites you're wasting your time consuming.
KindaSkolarly wrote:
And of course, we have to wonder why the communist mayors and governors, who a couple of weeks ago were threatening to arrest people for gathering in groups, are now marching with mobs.
Well, they're not communists really, right? But yes, concerns about catching and spreading coronavirus have been overshadowed by the George Floyd murder. I have heard that we may see a new spike in new cases as a result of these protests. We'll have to wait and see if that comes to play.