Argentbear
Well-Known Member
or hope that no one will actaully go and look for themselves
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Suppression of Free Speech on Covid
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Ebionite
Well-Known Member
Why are you talking like you have a point to make?
McBell
Unbound
They did make a point.
That you are unable to see it is on you.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
You have the most massive case of psychological projection I've ever seen.
It's quite astounding, actually.
"They were priests in vestments of white coats, tortoiseshell specs and pocket protectors. We didn't criticise them. We didn't engage with them – we bowed down before them."
Science: the religion that must not be questioned | Henry Gee
Henry Gee: Scientific experiments don't end with a Holy Grail so much as an estimate of probability. The Truth, with a capital T, is forever just beyond one's graspwww.theguardian.com
"My colleagues felt that we reported on published papers without significant analysis, depth or critical comment: we just translated what scientists said."
"You could say that this is not exactly a description of a journalist — more that of a priest, taking information from a source of authority and communicating it to the congregation."
Science journalism: Toppling the priesthood - Nature
In the first of three essays, Toby Murcott argues that the process of science needs to be opened up if journalists are to provide proper critique.www.nature.com
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
This is one of the main reasons we had lockdowns in the first place. To keep the hospitals from being completely overwhelmed with COVID patients so that they wouldn't be able to treat people for anything else (heart attacks, car accidents, knee replacements, etc.), resulting in a collapse of the medical system.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
You should try responding to it. That's how back-and-forth conversations work.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Predictably, your vapid response is entirely fact-free.
"They were priests in vestments of white coats, tortoiseshell specs and pocket protectors. We didn't criticise them. We didn't engage with them – we bowed down before them."
Science: the religion that must not be questioned | Henry Gee
Henry Gee: Scientific experiments don't end with a Holy Grail so much as an estimate of probability. The Truth, with a capital T, is forever just beyond one's grasp
"My colleagues felt that we reported on published papers without significant analysis, depth or critical comment: we just translated what scientists said."
"You could say that this is not exactly a description of a journalist — more that of a priest, taking information from a source of authority and communicating it to the congregation."
Science journalism: Toppling the priesthood - Nature
In the first of three essays, Toby Murcott argues that the process of science needs to be opened up if journalists are to provide proper critique.
The above is nothing short of sheer nonsense based on using your source as a stereotype of all or most scientists, and for some reason you've made that pretty much your m.o. My interest in science goes all the way back to when I was a young teenager, and now I'm 79 and have a graduate degree in anthropology and taught it for 30 years.
You, otoh, seem to just rant & rave on so many weird and seemingly imaginary things, and I simply am sick & tired of your make-believe approach.
IOW, I'm done.
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Well, where I lived we were never overrun with COVID patients.
Ebionite
Well-Known Member
I wouldn't expect you to comprehend it.
| DIED | 0.3 % | 6.0 % | 2.8 % | 3.1 % | 21.0 % | 2.9 % |
Argentbear
Well-Known Member
then you were very lucky
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
As were most people.
Argentbear
Well-Known Member
No one can comprehend a string of percentages with no context
Argentbear
Well-Known Member
no most people were not so lucky. According to the National Institute of Health in the first year of Covid 70% of hospitals in the Untied States were operating at or above their maximum patient census
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Link please. Thanks. All I can find is that according to the National Institute of Health is that 24 percent of hospitals were running about 80 percent of their ICUs and that the rest were under that figure. And I know that the hospital ships that were deployed were either unused or barely used.
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Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Also, one other question - was this after all those people were laid off? Not laid off, whatever they were? Sent home, usually with pay?
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SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
You're definitely not going to comprehend it for us, because it's obvious you didn't even read it.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
Oh okay. So you think the hospital was just messing with you or .... ?
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
I think many hospital workers were sent home with pay.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
Not sure how this is a response to my question.
Are you saying they were just short-staffed?
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Among other things. I mean, I would rather stay home than come up to the hospital.