Covid-19

[Muskie in dayton]

I recall hearing and reading ad nauseum how obesity and smoking were huge risk factors for severe COVID, and how "if you are overweight you should lose weight, and if you are smoking you should quit now".

Both great suggestions, but also both suggestions that take quite a bit of time to pay dividends, which doesn't necessarily help in an acute infectious disease crisis.

It continues to amaze me how fired up the far right is about some relatively brief lockdowns that ended 2 years ago.

"Acute infectious disease crisis"? This has been going on for 2.5 years with no end in sight. Regardless of COVID, our "health officials" should have been riding that horse harder than vaxxes for years, COVID or no COVID. Why haven't they?

"Relatively brief lockdowns"? Revisionist history. I'd distance myself too with how destructive these policies were. There are still kids masked and in-person learning shuttered as of the end of last school year: School Opening Tracker (burbio.com)

[paulxu]

As to masks, if you still, at this point, think they do anything to stop COVID, you are living in an alternate universe.

Do masks stop all droplets? No.
Are they effective in dramatically (80% for N95) in lowering the spread? Yes.
Are they most effective when worn by infected person? Yes.

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00637-20

Thanks for the "most clueless poster" comment. Appreciate the thought.
I'm going with testing by the American Society of Microbiology and will remain clueless.

[Final4]

but the vaxxed/boosted are getting COVID now at greater rates than the unvaccinated

I see statistical analysis is not your strong suit.

[XU_Lou]

I see statistical analysis is not your strong suit.

Umm, actually, he's spot on. Of course the CDC won't report these numbers, so you need to look at data from other countries.

[Xville]

Umm, actually, he's spot on. Of course the CDC won't report these numbers, so you need to look at data from other countries.

you don’t seem to understand what statistical analysis actually means

[xu82]

One day…….there will be basketball again. And BETTER basketball at that!

[nuts4xu]

Is this fun for you guys? The back and forth bickering and chirping at each other? You guys do realize, that neither side is going to change their minds?

I am not judging, I’m genuinely curious to know what people get out of this endless cycle of debate. Is it all good fun? Or a drive to convince someone that “you are right”?

What happens if one day XU LOU (as an example-nothing personal Lou) posts a response like “I never thought of it that way, I’ve am coming around to your point of view” or “I agree With you Paul on that point” or concedes they have wrong the entire time…

[XU_Lou]

Is this fun for you guys? The back and forth bickering and chirping at each other? You guys do realize, that neither side is going to change their minds?

I am not judging, I’m genuinely curious to know what people get out of this endless cycle of debate. Is it all good fun? Or a drive to convince someone that “you are right”?

What happens if one day XU LOU (as an example-nothing personal Lou) posts a response like “I never thought of it that way, I’ve am coming around to your point of view” or “I agree With you Paul on that point” or concedes they have wrong the entire time…

Did you happen to see the final sentence in post #7380?

[xu82]

I must admit, I haven’t studied for this like it was the SAT’s. Post #7380 was not on my cheat sheet.



I’m so proud I didn’t quote! :-)

[Final4]

Umm, actually, he's spot on. Of course the CDC won't report these numbers, so you need to look at data from other countries.

Umm, funny. I see statistical analysis is not your strong suit either. Read the above quote from MID again and apply some critical thinking........you don't need to go to Google and dredge up some obscure link. Rather, concentrate on and analyze that specific quote.