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I can’t make sense of any of the virus or the response. The data (writ large) is a mess, response has been contradictory at all levels, nothing seems logical, t
by ryanmarsh 6y ago
I can’t make sense of any of the virus or the response. The data (writ large) is a mess, response has been contradictory at all levels, nothing seems logical, the models aren’t open source, the rationale opaque, the secondary and third order social issues (according to popular media narrative) also completely bizarre, and what little ground truth I’ve been able to obtain is altogether a completely different reality.
I’m absolutely done with any and all media. When it mattered most (literally life and death) it was click bait, politics, and outright fakery.
There needs to obviously be a public health retrospective on this but also a policy and communication retro as well.
I want to read a book on WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. I want people with subpoena power and a 500 page report. This whole thing has just been bizarre. I can’t help but feel like I’m being punked.
- chasd00 6y agoI know _exactly_ how you feel. the only number I look at anymore is the one week average hospitalizations in my state. the projections have been wildly wrong, they remind me of 2016 political polls. I've tuned out all other news pretty much, even HN is getting bizarrely disconnected from reality. see the comment wondering "has testing increased? I haven't read anything". this is getting crazy.
- ryanmarsh 6y agoeven HN is getting bizarrely disconnected from reality Notice what gets downvoted.
- alexpetralia 6y agoThere is sort of a Teflon approach to mainstream media which goes something like: contradiction is acceptable so long as the experts tell us so. And the experts include the WHO.