Coronavirus Information...who do you trust?

[Dill]

(10-14-2020, 05:14 PM)PhilHos Wrote: So you're saying scientists are wrong?

Why are you ignoring science?

No. I'm saying some scientists are for sale. 

This is a repeat of what happened with Big Tobacco vs the scientists, Creation Science vs the scientists, Climate change deniers vs the Scientists.

Throw out money--create a dispute "among scientists" and the politicians declare there is "no consensus"--so they don't adopt policies which hurt their donor's profits.   EVERYONE is following "the scientists" then.

The declaration’s architects include Sunetra Gupta and Gabriela Gomes, two scientists who have proposed that societies may achieve herd immunity when 10% to 20% of their populations have been infected with the virus, a position most epidemiologists disagree with.

Last month, at the request of The New York Times, three epidemiological teams calculated the percentage of the country that is infected. What they found runs strongly counter to the theory being promoted in influential circles that the United States has either already achieved herd immunity or is close to doing so, and that the pandemic is all but over. That conclusion would imply that businesses, schools and restaurants could safely reopen, and that masks and other distancing measures could be abandoned.

“The idea that herd immunity will happen at 10% or 20% is just nonsense,” said Dr. Christopher J.L. Murray, director of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which produced the epidemic model frequently cited during White House news briefings as the epidemic hit hard in the spring.

The move comes amid a coronavirus outbreak at the White House that has now grown to more than 20 people, as evidence mounts that the administration did little to prevent or contain the virus’s spread.