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To me the justification is: we're in the midst of what we already know to be a global pandemic. The number of lives lost is nothing to scoff at. We do not want
by xahrepap 6y ago
To me the justification is: we're in the midst of what we already know to be a global pandemic. The number of lives lost is nothing to scoff at. We do not want to declare victory until we know we can declare victory.
Personally, I feel that's a fair justification for the CDC's hesitation.
- bradleyjg 6y agoIf we throw out cost benefit analysis and just go with our guts “out of an abundance of caution” we are no better than the anti-vaxxers.
- xahrepap 6y agoI think there's an argument to be made that we can make the cost benefit analysis with or without assuming the vaccine is a silver-bullet. The CDC is choosing to not make that assumption and make the analysis that way. I don't think it's fair to put that methodology in the same bucket as anti-vax logic.
- bradleyjg 6y agoAssuming the vaccine is or isn’t perfectly effective aren’t the only two options. They can use a probability distribution. Surely at least one statistician works at the CDC.
- xahrepap 6y agoFair point. I guess I'm just not approaching it from the same angle as you. I am just assuming they're doing that kind of work, but are not publicly giving advice until they feel confident in that advice. Maybe I'm wrong in giving them the benefit of the doubt here.
- ryandrake 6y agoOK, so do a cost benefit. What is the cost of a mask? Next to nothing--a buck at most, and even the disposable ones can be reused a few times. The cost is vanishingly small. Wearing masks and maintaining social distancing is a tiny, minuscule price to pay, even if the benefit is still questionable for people around vaccinated people. It costs almost nothing and is almost zero effort, so why wouldn't you? I just don't get this thing against masks, for the life of me I don't understand the mentality. In the past people have gone off to war and died for their country, and yet today we have people ready to riot about putting a little piece of cloth on their faces. I can't figure it out.
- bradleyjg 6y agoDo you also claim that medium and large gatherings have zero value? > In the past people have gone off to war and died for their country, There’s no evidence that a fully vaccinated person wearing a mask is doing anything positive for anyone, much less their country.
- vokep 6y agoConsidering only 6% are provably true Covid deaths, I'm really not so sure the number of lives lost isn't something to scoff at. Most people that say something like that also get in a car almost every day.
- lanternfish 6y agoWe can diff-in-diff deaths from medical emergencies; there doesn't need to be very strong proof beyond that because of remarkable signal strength.
- vokep 6y agoCan you explain further or link to some resource that does? I am not entirely convinced one way or the other, but I've leaned more and more towards viewing covid like any other cold based on information I'm aware of. The apparent absolute lack of integrity of CDCs summaries of how to interpret their data vs. the appearance of the data has also contributed to my view. I'm not going to say I'd be happy to be proven wrong - it would mean the world is a in a worse state than I'd hope it is, but I don't intend to have an incorrect model of reality, so if my model is wrong please help me correct it.
- chris11 6y agoI've heard of vaccinated people coming down with covid. Vaccines are reported to be extremely effective against hospitalization and death, but it looks like there's some evidence vaccines don't completely prevent spreading it.