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The point of the article is that people with relevant qualifications are saying things like that, whilst also saying in private "this is wrong but I just need t

The point of the article is that people with relevant qualifications are saying things like that, whilst also saying in private "this is wrong but I just need to get to retirement". Pretty much anything public health people say on the topic of COVID turns out to be wrong on close inspection. It's really astounding. Even very basic things like getting an actual clinical definition of COVID itself (let alone long COVID) turns out to be impossible, which is why the official definition governments use is "got a positive on a COVID test". That's not actually a disease symptom but COVID isn't defined by symptoms any more than long COVID is. The reason this happens is that public health is an authoritarian collectivist concept - the government will make decisions for the collective good even if individuals must suffer as a consequence. The entire culture of that space is dominated by a mindset that says, "we will obtain compliance by making scientific sounding claims, because people respect science and will follow it". That's why COVID research is so full of conflicting and nonsensical claims.

ImPostingOnHN 4y ago
- dang 4y ago
  Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? You've been doing it a ton, unfortunately—dozens in this thread alone, and many more in your account's recent history. In fact, I found it hard to find even one post that wasn't somehow flamey, prickly, or swipey. This is not what HN is for. We want curious conversation here. It also looks like you've been using the site primarily for political and ideological battle, and that's a line at which we ban accounts. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. For past explanations about that, see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

ImPostingOnHN 4y ago

dang 4y ago
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? You've been doing it a ton, unfortunately—dozens in this thread alone, and many more in your account's recent history. In fact, I found it hard to find even one post that wasn't somehow flamey, prickly, or swipey. This is not what HN is for. We want curious conversation here. It also looks like you've been using the site primarily for political and ideological battle, and that's a line at which we ban accounts. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. For past explanations about that, see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.