Pretty sure I have made myself abundantly clear on my trust in govt and their hired flunkies that do their bidding. A scientist is only as good as the funding they are getting and the source they are getting it from. Govt officials will always have to earn my trust and they are starting from the bottom rather than normal people who start at the top and then lose my trust.
Way too much misinformation, disinformation, errors, non logical rules, and restrictions to take any of these people serious.
For instance. Stay inside and social distance, unless of course you are protesting. Don’t go to a trump rally but it’s okay to protest. Wear your mask coming into a restaurant to walk 4 ft to your table and take it off. Driving around with masks and gloves on.
A virus so contagious that not wearing a mask will infect a whole town, but they have to stick 4” of qtip up to your brain to get a sample of this stuff. A virus so deadly you have to be tested to know you even have it.
Don’t get me started on the false death reporting, the false positive test results, tainted testing kits, sensitive testing kits. On and on and on.
If you can look at all that is happening and has happened and not raise an eyebrow than you are sheep.
Oh boy. Okay. Ill play...
I dont trust the government, in general, either. Politicians arent unbiased scientists, let me make that abundantly clear.
There have been a ton of things that have come to be false that we initially believed. Thats how the scientific process works. Thats why a scientific law isnt based on one single study that was never peer reviewed. Its based on dozens if not hundreds if not thousands of studies all of which have been peer reviewed.
Any UNBIASED scientist isnt saying its without risk to go gather in groups of 100s or 1000s without staying socially distanced without a face covering. Those are the democratic politicians allowing that. You’re again confusing the two and combining them into a single entity.
You wear the mask as you walk to your table because you’re passing less than 6 feet from the patrons at tables. Once you sit at your table, if the establishment is following proper guidelines, you will be far enough apart because the tables aren’t supposed to be within 6ft of one another. This isn’t that abstract of a concept to comprehend, as long as you’re objective and leave your agenda aside.
No scientist is telling people they need to drive around with a mask and gloves on alone in their car. Thats someones personal decision to do so, their action has zero bearing on what the science did or didnt say. Did you also ever consider that MAYBE they consider themselves extremely high risk (on an immunosuppressant, have cancer, whatever) and they glove and mask up when they leave their house, then discard their masks & gloves and sanitize their hands before they re-enter their house? Not so dumb after all...
Yes, I’m probably giving a lot of people too much credit there, but you see the point im trying to make (well, no, you probably dont or will refuse to acknowledge it).
You test the posterior nasopharynx because thats the place where likelihood is highest of the virus being present if you have it. You test for the flu in the same place - do you have to be tested for the flu to know you have it? To confirm, yah, but most of the time a history of a certain certainconstellation of symptoms (headache, fever, myalgias, malaise, +/- n/v) with an abrupt onset is a pretty damn good indicator you likely have it. Theres a wide range of illness severity in covid-19, that’s undeniable. The patients dont really go downhill quick until, on average, ~7 days after they exhibit their first signs/symptoms. So if they get tested before that 7 day mark “they had to get tested to know they had it”, but that doesnt mean it still didnt kill them, cause them to be hospitalized, or make them sick as a dog after that 7 day mark.
The “false death” reporting has been beaten to death and im not going there again. Maybe there is some false reports, but theres also likely underreporting going on. And there arent 180+ k, 120k, or even 100k, 80k, 60k false death reports. The amount of false death reports is literally statistically negligible, especially when you consider the fact there have undeniably been deaths that occurred that havent been counted.
The only thing that has me raising an eyebrow is how politics have somehow been entangled with science in the eye of the general population. We have a bunch of people in this country who want to act like they know a damn thing about a extremely complex topics like virology, infectious disease, microbiology, public health when they couldnt even define inoculation, tell you what an ID50, LD50, or S-spike is, or make it through a paragraph of an ID primary article. These people also dont understand what the sensitivity or specificity of a diagnostic test are, which explains why they think every false positive is some government conspiracy to inflate numbers. Its insanity.
New Zealand listened to science, shut down for TWO WEEKS, and essentially eliminated covid. I’m not for the government FORCING that upon anyone, I just wish the people who dont have a fugging clue what theyre talking about would listen to the people who have more of a fugging clue what they’re talking about.