Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

This is your posting style on here encapsulated in one post.

No, it's not "some thinktank in Philly." It's a lab run by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania's Hospital that has a data-based Covid-19 tracking system.

COVID-Lab: Mapping COVID-19 in Your Community | PolicyLab

They recommend evidence-based solutions by first gathering actual case data across nearly 400 U.S. counties, and then using their infectious disease expertise, and their burgeoning knowledge of this virus' spread given how places are behaving, to project cases over the coming weeks. Based on that data-driven process, they make public health recommendations that policymakers should be, but aren't, considering.

But you chose to harp on the headline of something someone wrote about it and ignore the meat of the article.

"Some thinktank in Philly." Just part of endless "thinktank" stuff the WH gets handed that isn't any more important than that other silly thinktank stuff those egghead types waste everyone's time with, eh?

I'm amazed that anyone with a modicum of intelligence can look at that and not be saddened.

Places all over this county have ignored all scientific data, and evidence-based guidelines, in favor of reckless and impetuous behavior. It has boded for a lot of unnecessary sickness and death. But knowledge, reason, evidence and science get treated with outright contempt. Worse, many leaders who have had the forum to create a sense of importance among the general populace about the virus, are not only choosing to treat facts and evidence like they are opinions, they are taking it a step further to try to replace the evidence-based things that demonstrate their recklessness. ... with lies, distortions, fudging and false narratives.

We have made ourselves into a nation of idiots with a disdain for expertise and reason. That tracking system is now suggesting that places that acted accordingly are facing a significant resurgence of infections and possible deaths that could have been avoided.

But the headline on the Daily Beast article is what we should focus on.

Wow, indeed.

 

I thought this was an excellent interview, despite the interviewers doing their same old bubbleTV act.

This, in my opinion, is the kind of person we should be listening to right now.

@tapintoamerica immediately questioned the Moderna release regarding their vaccine when I posted about it on Monday. He was prescient. The whole thing really is fishy, from how Moncef Slaoui may have profited from the announcement (he was selling his stake in Moderna to take on a job in Trump's administration) in what looks like a possible pump and dump. ... to Moderna rushing to do a secondary public offering after the announcement and get the thing priced and sold before the dump could fully play out.

Same thing with Gilead, and their fuzzy announcements regarding Remdesivir, which the interviewee brings up. Whether these are examples of manipulation to try to create manias in their stocks, or whether it's politicians wanting to offer answers, even false ones, to a scared public, these big annoucements based on absolutely nothing tangible really misinform the public, which doesn't look beyond the headline.

The science is only good if its integrity is kept intact, and we don't sell false things as science because they fit a narrative or advance someone's corrupt motives. Unfortunately, there is so much of that going on, that it's impossible for most people to wade through it.