yup.Sorry but I am not yet ready to bend down and worship the Center for Disease Control, or the Wuhan Lab for Novell Coronavirus Research.
Now, I am sure that a lot of fine folks work in both places.
But I don’t have a lot of faith in the people standing behind the people that run them.
Working Doctors, scientists, and engineers don’t run these places. Political appointees do.
"masks are not needed "
"must wear n95"
"any mask will work must wear them"
"should wear 2 masks (true story)"
"banning travel is xenophobia"
"hey we need to ban travel"
"So how is a fact... a fact when the people stating the facts change said facts weekly/monthly ?"
Simple: As we learned more about the virus from research and experience, that was reflected in guidance. That's how science works. It's a process of learning an discovery and not static.
"another fact is states that went into rigorous lock downs fared no better than states that hardly shut down."
Let's move this discussion away from US states and toward a group of states in Europe: "When compared to other Scandinavian countries with similar population profiles, Sweden has fared much worse and recorded a significantly higher number of deaths than its neighbours, all of which have had tougher restrictions during much of the pandemic."
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"It is hard to separate all the factors that might have caused this, but the absence of strict lockdown measures is likely to have contributed.
There's also no evidence that Sweden's economy did any better than its neighbours."
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"Although Sweden chose not to lock down early in the pandemic, with bars, restaurants and shops remaining open, increasingly tighter legally-binding restrictions have been imposed over the last five months.
These include a ban on public gatherings of eight or more people, limits on numbers in stores, gyms and on bookable public transport and a stop on serving food and drink after 20:00.
Daily reported deaths have been falling since early January, but the infection rate remains high."
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Covid lockdown: Seven enduring claims fact-checked
A year after the first UK lockdown began, there are many who doubt the necessity of such restrictions.www.bbc.com
fact checked link but who fact checks the fact checkers ?