we have done this.
The standard method for "controlling" a contagion is using basic common sense. YOU ISOLATE THE VECTORS AND ENCOURAGE... or if things get too intense.... DEMAND THEY ISOLATE.
This is the first time ever that we have focused on quarantining the healthy instead. Demanding people stay home, practice "social distancing" and masking up are modified quarantine methods... only slightly downgraded.
The rationale is that we have oodles and oodles of non symptomatic carriers running around shedding virus without knowing it.
This is so silly it makes my head hurt to think about it.
1) there is the issue of test result integrity. When you have organizations which have documented problems of testing papaya and animal livestock tissue samples and coming back hot (this happened with WHO labs, and the president of the African country threw them out of the nation), reporting 100% of all samples as infected, or "misplacing" the decimal so that 9.8% of samples being infected gets reported as 98% (both happened in Florida this past week, on a LARGE percentage of testing lab results), or as tests run by Stanford Medical School report, over 60% of all tests report viral load in areas where sickness is less than 2%... SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH THE TEST METHODOLOGY. I have participated in lots of analytical data gathering in my time, and these kinds of numbers would AT LEAST cause me and my colleagues to temporarily throw out the data and recalibrate the instrumentation, the sampling methods, the assumptions... or SOMETHING. I mean, we have been at this for over 4 months now, and the Karen crowd is still hysterically screeching about the need to be "responsible" and "respectful" and "listen to the science".... by which they mean alarmist headlines which have little if anything to do with actual science. The mantra tirelessly repeats "well, since we DON'T know... we should err on the side of caution..... as after all, lives are at stake here."
Let me give you an example of this kind of reasoning and how it works. I once reviewed GWAP (ground water assessment plans) for water testing for polluted SUPERFUND sites for region 7 EPA. we did some pretty ugly sites with pretty ugly groundwater contamination. We had to make scientifically sound decisions on what the contaminant load was, and what the remediation (clean up) decisions were to be. These were issues which affected community health and literally millions and millions of dollars. If we took the perspective that "the issues are too serious... peoples lives and health are at stake.... we must demand SAFETY" then the people who this would affect (mostly large corporations WHO OBEYED THE DISPOSAL LAWS AT THE TIME, WHEN WE KNEW LESS ABOUT THE LONG TERM TOXIC EFFECTS) would raise hell, and rightly so..... only this time it is not just a fortune 100 company....., it is the economic survival of an entire nation. They are requesting...., no, DEMANDING... that we follow what can only be described as idiotic and scientifically unsound draconian measures... because... because Karen is worried. In a word, no. No, I won't obey and submit and cooperate with this foolishness, because I am a free man.... and like they never tire of suggesting, I listen to the science, not just the scientists.
2) there is the issue of what good this self quarantine actually does. They would have us believe that the disease is virulent, deadly, highly contagious, able to remain suspended in air for hours and spread by the most incidental contact.... AND able to be transmitted to otherwise non symptomatic people so that they go merrily tripping about shedding virus to any and all, insouciantly infecting scores of hapless victims in their wicked and heedless selfishiness. BESIDES the silliness of this scenario, the lethal and virulent nature of this model makes any and all attempts to contain such a silent and widespread killer are going to fail... utterly fail. The only reasonable strategy here would be to follow the path we have done whenever there is a killer for which there is no cure..... we let it burn itself out. Contagions do that, you know. They kill (as much as 25 per cent of the population of Europe, for a past reference) and then they fade away. Let me stress that even with the wildly inflated numbers purporting to be Covid deaths (haven't even mentioned that scam!)... EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE THAT A PERSON WHO WAS RUN OVER BY A CAR AND TESTED POSITIVE WERE A "COVID DEATH"..... this wild and irresponsible method of demanding draconian self quarantine would be ineffective...... so why bother.... other than to feel good about how much we care?
I am just urging citizens of what once was known to be petulant, combative, arrogant, and resistant to claims on freedom and liberty .....to the point of open hostility, to consider reclaiming a bit of that heritage and learn once again to say "no."
That's all.
The standard method for "controlling" a contagion is using basic common sense. YOU ISOLATE THE VECTORS AND ENCOURAGE... or if things get too intense.... DEMAND THEY ISOLATE.
This is the first time ever that we have focused on quarantining the healthy instead. Demanding people stay home, practice "social distancing" and masking up are modified quarantine methods... only slightly downgraded.
The rationale is that we have oodles and oodles of non symptomatic carriers running around shedding virus without knowing it.
This is so silly it makes my head hurt to think about it.
1) there is the issue of test result integrity. When you have organizations which have documented problems of testing papaya and animal livestock tissue samples and coming back hot (this happened with WHO labs, and the president of the African country threw them out of the nation), reporting 100% of all samples as infected, or "misplacing" the decimal so that 9.8% of samples being infected gets reported as 98% (both happened in Florida this past week, on a LARGE percentage of testing lab results), or as tests run by Stanford Medical School report, over 60% of all tests report viral load in areas where sickness is less than 2%... SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH THE TEST METHODOLOGY. I have participated in lots of analytical data gathering in my time, and these kinds of numbers would AT LEAST cause me and my colleagues to temporarily throw out the data and recalibrate the instrumentation, the sampling methods, the assumptions... or SOMETHING. I mean, we have been at this for over 4 months now, and the Karen crowd is still hysterically screeching about the need to be "responsible" and "respectful" and "listen to the science".... by which they mean alarmist headlines which have little if anything to do with actual science. The mantra tirelessly repeats "well, since we DON'T know... we should err on the side of caution..... as after all, lives are at stake here."
Let me give you an example of this kind of reasoning and how it works. I once reviewed GWAP (ground water assessment plans) for water testing for polluted SUPERFUND sites for region 7 EPA. we did some pretty ugly sites with pretty ugly groundwater contamination. We had to make scientifically sound decisions on what the contaminant load was, and what the remediation (clean up) decisions were to be. These were issues which affected community health and literally millions and millions of dollars. If we took the perspective that "the issues are too serious... peoples lives and health are at stake.... we must demand SAFETY" then the people who this would affect (mostly large corporations WHO OBEYED THE DISPOSAL LAWS AT THE TIME, WHEN WE KNEW LESS ABOUT THE LONG TERM TOXIC EFFECTS) would raise hell, and rightly so..... only this time it is not just a fortune 100 company....., it is the economic survival of an entire nation. They are requesting...., no, DEMANDING... that we follow what can only be described as idiotic and scientifically unsound draconian measures... because... because Karen is worried. In a word, no. No, I won't obey and submit and cooperate with this foolishness, because I am a free man.... and like they never tire of suggesting, I listen to the science, not just the scientists.
2) there is the issue of what good this self quarantine actually does. They would have us believe that the disease is virulent, deadly, highly contagious, able to remain suspended in air for hours and spread by the most incidental contact.... AND able to be transmitted to otherwise non symptomatic people so that they go merrily tripping about shedding virus to any and all, insouciantly infecting scores of hapless victims in their wicked and heedless selfishiness. BESIDES the silliness of this scenario, the lethal and virulent nature of this model makes any and all attempts to contain such a silent and widespread killer are going to fail... utterly fail. The only reasonable strategy here would be to follow the path we have done whenever there is a killer for which there is no cure..... we let it burn itself out. Contagions do that, you know. They kill (as much as 25 per cent of the population of Europe, for a past reference) and then they fade away. Let me stress that even with the wildly inflated numbers purporting to be Covid deaths (haven't even mentioned that scam!)... EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE THAT A PERSON WHO WAS RUN OVER BY A CAR AND TESTED POSITIVE WERE A "COVID DEATH"..... this wild and irresponsible method of demanding draconian self quarantine would be ineffective...... so why bother.... other than to feel good about how much we care?
I am just urging citizens of what once was known to be petulant, combative, arrogant, and resistant to claims on freedom and liberty .....to the point of open hostility, to consider reclaiming a bit of that heritage and learn once again to say "no."
That's all.
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