Almost everyone overestimates Covid risk

Stop and think wrote:

So we have to find another way. I appreciate LRC for allowing the Harambes and Uncles of LRC for pushing the edges of our search for answers but I abhor our policy makers efforts to control our skepticism.

I agree that recovery from COVID should be treated like being vaccinated. Some school policies are dumb. Do they make vaccinated kids quarantine upon exposure too?

I disagree that Unkle and I have done the same to 'push the edge of our search for answers' considering Unkle spams fringe misinformation mixed with anti-semitism daily and I try to stick to academic literature, government data, and/or summaries thereof.

90% of what Unkle posts is immediately refuted by simple arithmetic or is simply unsubstantiated BS.

There is a lot we don't know. Public health policy and messaging is hard. I share your frustrations but also think you are too symapthetic to the anti-vaxx side of the issue. The reason we hear about unvaccinated people dying every day is because it's happening thousands of times a day! Contrast with far, far fewer vaccine deaths and the coverage makes sense!

Also, doctors who spread medical misinformation can and should be sanctioned by regulatory bodies. Just like someone telling an AIDS patient that HIV isn't the cause, so don't bother taking drugs, docs telling people to avoid the vaccine or try untested treatments for no reason other than contrarianism are bad, actually.

yes yes yes yes wrote:

The Unkle wrote:

Please do not compare me with Harambe in any aspect of what we do.

He pushes the establishment lies that I debunk.

In reality, I believe you have done more to advance the causes of vaccination, masking, and other establishment prescribed anti-Covid measures than anyone on this board. You are like a straight man, so transparently incorrect and misguided, you give reason to pages and pages of reasonable rebuttals, all of which refute your lies and misinformation,

Keep up the good work. Brother.

Unkle has baited out so many well-thought-out analyses of COVID and vaccines that I think you might be right.

He's been an exceptional foil, highlighting the vast difference in evidence and intelligence on the two sides of the COVID-and-vaccines debate.

Harambe wrote:

yes yes yes yes wrote:

In reality, I believe you have done more to advance the causes of vaccination, masking, and other establishment prescribed anti-Covid measures than anyone on this board. You are like a straight man, so transparently incorrect and misguided, you give reason to pages and pages of reasonable rebuttals, all of which refute your lies and misinformation,

Keep up the good work. Brother.

Unkle has baited out so many well-thought-out analyses of COVID and vaccines that I think you might be right.

He's been an exceptional foil, highlighting the vast difference in evidence and intelligence on the two sides of the COVID-and-vaccines debate.

Yes, and thank you (and some notable others) for your tireless and helpful efforts to discredit his misinformation and lies.

980098 wrote:

Democrats NEED Bogeyman. Their platform sucks that bad.

That doesn't make sense though because it makes them look bad for not being able to solve the problem... Nobody likes being in a pandemic.

Harambe wrote:

yes yes yes yes wrote:

In reality, I believe you have done more to advance the causes of vaccination, masking, and other establishment prescribed anti-Covid measures than anyone on this board. You are like a straight man, so transparently incorrect and misguided, you give reason to pages and pages of reasonable rebuttals, all of which refute your lies and misinformation,

Keep up the good work. Brother.

Unkle has baited out so many well-thought-out analyses of COVID and vaccines that I think you might be right.

He's been an exceptional foil, highlighting the vast difference in evidence and intelligence on the two sides of the COVID-and-vaccines debate.

Your entire life is about this. You have deluded yourself into accepting praise from random digital strangers as a substitute for socializing in the real world.

It is no coincidence that your position in this "debate" is that of "distancing." You favor the disruption of normal human interaction for everyone, on the grounds of comfortable ad populum fallacies.

What you fail to realize is that because of the coerced vaccinations, the tide has turned against you. Soon you will lose the luxury of presuming yourself correct and be forced into the corner of reflecting on your own beliefs.

To preempt your "et tu" response, this is precisely what your opponents have been subjected to, with your eager and constant contribution, for the past year and a half; rest assured we are all quite sure of ourselves and well grounded. You however are about to be left high and dry as the fantasy world you've bought into collapses.

Hating me will not help. I'm going to give you good advice: find things you enjoy and focus on them, before it's too late. By this I mean pay attention to good things; don't just look for things you hate and attack them. Surely you can see how that's self-destructive.

United managed to get 97% of people vaxxed with a simple mandate...

"Tide turned"