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Science doesn't really care about your "ideas". What it absolutely loves is people asking questions and getting to understand the data
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Science likes that but the media, our governments and many of our citizens don't.
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So yes, let's have a discussion. But the ground rules have to be that scientific findings have far greater weight than a lay person's beliefs and ideas.
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Great. they why have so many scientists who have been epidemiologists for decades been left out of the conversation? Why are they shunned? Thousands, across the world?
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The problem lately is that certain news sources have been giving equal or greater weight to unfounded theories than they are to rigorously produced scientific findings.
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I find the same, CNN, MSNBC and Fox to name a few.
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People's lives are at risk. They deserve the actual facts so they can make informed decisions.
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Of course. here are some facts. Florida is wide open (has been since October) and doing much better than locked down California. Why?
Some states who don't have mask mandates are doing the same in terms of corona infections and deaths, as other who do. Why?
Some countries locked down hard like Peru, UK, Spain and got the worst of it. Others like Japan, Belarus and Sweden didn't lock down or not much at all and are doing the same and in some cases better than the first 3 I told you about. Why?
If you're going to make us wear masks, lock us down and make us all suffer you better have an answer to all these questions.
Otherwise you are taking a situation in which you have no control (a respiratory virus) and compounding it by doing something that makes things much, much worse for us all.