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Wasn't that the most up-to-date data at the time? Are you claiming that they did find clear evidence and were lying about it, or that they somehow should have
by Taywee 5y ago
Wasn't that the most up-to-date data at the time? Are you claiming that they did find clear evidence and were lying about it, or that they somehow should have had evidence to the contrary at that time?
Just like any burgeoning subject, you should generally keep up with the expert recommendations. Expecting them to have had all the answers and get everything exactly right in a circumstance with as many unknowns as this pandemic has had is foolish. It's silly how many people are treating medical agencies like this as if they're complete amateurs because some of their educated guess have ended up not being ideal, or that they've updated their recommendations regularly based on recent data.
It seems like people are expecting medical organizations to be like politicians. Updating recommendations based on new data regularly isn't "double backing" or flip-flopping, it's updating recommendations based on new data. It does mean that sometimes their advice will not be correct, especially when the data is thin, but it's literally the best choice you have available.
I really expect a technical community to be better about this kind of stuff. Limited data means less reliable conclusions.
- Alex3917 5y ago> Wasn't that the most up-to-date data at the time? No, China was already arresting doctors for warning about human-to-human transmission in December. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/world/asia/Li-Wenliang-china-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/world/asia/Li-Wenliang-ch...
- ceejayoz 5y agoIt was the most up-to-date data the WHO had their hands on at the time.
- trasz 5y agoCan’t believe we still have to deal with this FUD. No, China “hasn’t been arresting doctors”; in particular Li Wengliang was never arrested. He had “a talk”, similar to certain American YouTuber visited by NSA for not being patriotic enough. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoWhat, specifically, are you hinting at? "Vagueposting" is really annoying. Tell, don't make us guess.
- mikeyouse 5y agoThe same thing happens with e.g. Fauci's mask remarks from March of 2020. Somehow people pretend like that was the fatal communication sin of the whole pandemic and the reason there's little trust in the medical community and they ignore the months and months of downplaying the virus and just an endless stream of disinformation from literally everyone else in the administration in service of trying to get reelected.