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The mask flip-flopping was unbelievable. In the beginning: masks are not effective, don't use them, stay six feet away. Then, some point later: you're careles
by mc32 3y ago
The mask flip-flopping was unbelievable. In the beginning: masks are not effective, don't use them, stay six feet away. Then, some point later: you're careless and irresponsible of you do not wear masks as you will infect other people. Then, later, We're not sure about six feet, that was an old study regarding droplets and not aerosols. Oh, Covid transmits via droplets and aerosols, so masks are ineffective. Get the vaccine, two shots. No, no, wait, you'll need a booster... Wait, no, you need another one. Wait, wait, you'll need one every few months. Oh and wearing masks can have negative cognitive and health effects if you wear them for a prolonged amount of time. 1000+ days later, the 15 day flatten the curve emergency decree is over!
Now, I'm all for vaccines but I want proven vaccines not half-arsed vaccines approved after a 6 month study on efficacy and adverse effects.
Damn it, they should have had a dedicated team studying these exact things fomr the get-go but mr know it all Faucci was adamant he knew what he was talking about.
They should have been forthright and been truthful with people instead of spoon-feeding them and gaslighting them. We're adults, we can understand we're figuring things out and it's an emergent pandemic --but boy, the propaganda.
- snovv_crash 3y agoThis is science. It changes its opinion as more information is gathered. This is a feature, not a bug. If you want universal answers that don't change, look to religion.
- mc32 3y agoReligion was what we witnessed in people when they in unison would follow any new directive without question --without evidence. Also, the establishment is loath to admit any mistakes, when there were many. Mr Faucci also lied to Congress. Remember how the establishment laughed at Sweden, but it turns out they were right, or at least less wrong about how to deal with this past pandemic?
- betacat 3y agoSweden tried to go the "herd immunity" route, realize they were about to take it hard on the nose, and changed course to match their European neighbors who were doing better. What do you think happened?
- wfme 3y agoI'm not aware of any Swedish lockdowns. What are you referring to?
- vegardx 3y agoThis is one of those hard things to understand if you don't understand the nordic mentality. Unlike a lot of places you rarely have to mandate something for people to adjust their behavior. So - no there weren't any lockdowns, but social gatherings was very limited, and people for the most part followed through with social distancing.
- snovv_crash 3y agoSwitzerland didn't have any "lockdowns" either. Non essential stores were closed, as well as public gatherings, but public transport was still running and you could go wherever and do what you wanted. And Switzerland ended up having much higher COVID stats than surrounding parts of Europe, despite having a generally wealthy, fit and healthy population. But people's individual lives were much less impacted since they could still do outdoor activities and travel. It's all a trade-off.
- henearkr 3y ago> wearing masks can have negative cognitive and health effects if you wear them for a prolonged amount of time Cognitive problems from masks??? LOL. You are making this up.
- mc32 3y agoHmmm https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34401887/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34401887/
- henearkr 3y agoHow does that compares to the kind of cognitive problems created by long covid, i.e. riveted to the bed and/or unable to read/concentrate/think ever again, etc? Have you seen what happened to Physics Girl? (and she was vaccinated, but still the likelyhood to get it would have been ever greater without the vaccine) To lower the proba of getting that, I would eagerly accept any gap in the development of my facial recognition abilities.
- mc32 3y agoWouldn’t it be cool if they informed you and let you make that decision?
- henearkr 3y agoIt's not news that not seeing faces impedes face skills learning... I'd have guessed it anyways. It's just not at all the same scale of cognitive damage. On one hand (covid) you get quite a brain substance loss (aka premature brain aging), on the other hand a skill is defavored (faces) which the brain is always happy to compensate with skills about other stuff. So yeah, in a population that is leaning to believe that covid vaccines have 5G chips in it... you have to select the most important bits of science to know for the emergency, and spend all the time and energy in pedagogy on that. Not really worth to do this kind of effusive pedagogy about why not seeing faces impedes becoming good at faces.
- 3y ago