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I think this is a bit of a misrepresentation about how scientific research and medical advice is performed. It’s not that we don’t know anything, it’s that as our sample size grows we move more from traditional treatment methodologies to more specialized ones. When this started we said we don’t know how to treat this coronavirus, but we know how to treat others so we’ll start with that. Then as more people get sick our knowledge of what is best grows and becomes more accurate.
This is conflicted by political and economic pressure pushing once trusted agencies to release data based on bad science that is now being refuted by those on the front lines and foreign research.
We are very much not in the dark about this. We may not be 100%, but to say we are in the dark is a gross oversimplification of the situation.
Also, I think putting experts in quotation marks makes it pretty clear where you stand in the issue. They are experts. Full stop. They have literal decades of education specifically in infectious disease and epidemiology.
1 in 1,000 Americans died from Covid-19 in the year 2020.
Im with you on being responsible and listening to trusted medical professionals. Also fully support that if a business or state doesn’t enforce policy to where you feel safe you should enforce your own.Be responsible, listen to the medical professionals, and get over the desire of wanting things to go back to normal.
If your state/gym will not enforce safe policies it is your job as a parent to enforce your own. Parents are not victims here.
The individualism of American society is exactly why we have failed so miserably at this, this virus has exposed so many of our known weaknesses.
Telling people to “get over their desire to want normalcy” is a bit insensitive and unrealistic. Also, depressing.
Without that “Individualism” we wouldn’t have progressed to where we are today. It’s conformity and the unwillingness to challenge each other that oppresses the greatest ideas. If I read what you posted correctly you think Personal Liberty is why we are in the state we are in?!
I mean, I’ve looked at the data and I’ve got to be honest there aren’t many any other countries (Locked down or not) that are doing drastically better than us. (Again, that aren’t substantially smaller and surrounded by a body of water) Antarctica just got Covid... who left THAT fridge door open?