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2020-07-13 Europe

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Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-13 06:32|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Anybody who still believes in herd immunity needs psychiatric treatment - middle ages style.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 11:26|| 2020-07-13 11:26|| Front Page Top

#2 You can bleat that all you want, doesn't make it right, Eeyore

Posted by Frank G 2020-07-13 11:51|| 2020-07-13 11:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Exactly, Frank. You people can keep pretending that your position is not fantasy. But the Gods of the Copybook Headings are here.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 12:07|| 2020-07-13 12:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh there's no doubt about that.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-07-13 12:39|| 2020-07-13 12:39|| Front Page Top

#5 g(r)omgoru, why do you take every Covid posts so personally?

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-07-13 17:46|| 2020-07-13 17:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Not every post - just the ones that are blatant & dishonest propaganda.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 18:09|| 2020-07-13 18:09|| Front Page Top

#7 ie: the ones you disagree with

Posted by Frank G 2020-07-13 18:24|| 2020-07-13 18:24|| Front Page Top

#8 More specifically, any post that (due to the poster's ideological orientation/personal preferences) which presents a distorted picture (usually underestimating by orders of magnitude) of the requirements for herd immunity. cf.
Dowdy, D., & D’Souza, G. (2020). Early herd immunity against COVID-19: A dangerous misconception. Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Research Center.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 18:35|| 2020-07-13 18:35|| Front Page Top

#9 #7 Of course I think and feel subjectively and make mistakes. But, in this particular area I've been trained to think objectively. I'm not for lock-downs, masks, and HCQ because it satisfies my emotional needs. I'm because all my training & experience as mathematical biologist show that herd immunity is dangerous fantasy. And therefore, I'm for lock-downs, masks, and HCQ - and any other thing that'll work - because it's the only way until there is a vaccine.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 18:57|| 2020-07-13 18:57|| Front Page Top

#10 g(r)om, I didn't know you moonlighted at Twitter and YouTube as "editor". (j/k)

Posted by Clem 2020-07-13 19:14|| 2020-07-13 19:14|| Front Page Top

#11 ^???

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 19:15|| 2020-07-13 19:15|| Front Page Top

#12 It means people aren't buying your disaster pr0n, G. The more you flog your Molly the less anybody buys it.

Posted by Frank G 2020-07-13 19:57|| 2020-07-13 19:57|| Front Page Top

#13 Based on this, g(r)om: "#6 Not every post - just the ones that are blatant & dishonest propaganda." It was a joke...Twitter, FB, YouTube, etc., deleting videos/posts from scientists/doctors if they don't toe the leftist/establishment line.

Posted by Clem 2020-07-13 21:17|| 2020-07-13 21:17|| Front Page Top

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