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Cases are sky rocketing in many countries right now, which is primarily due to Omicron. The exact same thing happened with Delta,
ou seem to be suggesting that the vaccine is the reason why, but the primary reason is due to the much lower lethality of the Omicron strain.
So you're saying that if we just reduce restrictions and let people get more sunlight and exercise it might be beneficial?
they live in dirtier environments and they live a tougher life in general.
It's less dangerous but more people are catching it, so actual deaths tend to trend upwards.
No, because it's not the restrictions that are keeping people inside, it's the weather. The good people of NYC are perfectly free to stand outside in the snow and the rain all they want covid or not.
We're talking NCY and Phoenix, not Syria.
originally posted by: InachMarbank
I'm interested in debating, and I'm taking the side that the vaccine probably has made this disease worse, not better.
I'm just looking at the WORLDOMETER report for USA and comparing these time periods:
It is clear that fall season 2021 was worse than fall season 2020 from both a case count and death count perspective.
It has now become clear that winter 2022 is worse than winter 2021 from a case count perspective. It is still not totally clear that winter 2022 will be worse than winter 2021 from a death count perspective.
I hate to make a morbid prediction. It may take a couple months for a new case to succumb to death. So with such record shattering numbers of new cases, we can probably expect the death toll to get worse in the next couple months.
So now the debate becomes, if it isn't the vaccine that made this pandemic worse, exacerbated it, then what did?
What evidence exists to say SARS COV 2 got worse on its own?
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
originally posted by: network dude
I have not read the paper, nor do I have an opinion on it, but did I miss something?
This has been debunked? Where?
Read the thread?
Oh, boy, where to start.
originally posted by: network dude
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
originally posted by: network dude
I have not read the paper, nor do I have an opinion on it, but did I miss something?
This has been debunked? Where?
Read the thread?
I'm afraid it doesn't work that way.
If this has been debunked, just like to the post that debunks it. If you can't, then you are full of crap. it's OK to not have an answer, but when you pretend you do, you look like a pinhead.
best ATP post I have read in a long time. Thanks for this. Faith in humanity has been restored.
originally posted by: Ksihkehe
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: Ksihkehe
I have no clue what you're talking about. At least you admit that the paper in the OP is just bad statistics.
Of course you have no idea what I'm talking about, it's called confirmation bias.
originally posted by: MDDoxs
a reply to: Xcalibur254
The paper is garbage…period.
Perhaps you'd like to phone a friend to answer my questions about your ability to understand the studies you've presented, maybe we should ask the audience instead?
It sure seems like you and your pals don't want to talk to me directly since things went sideways for your narrative. It's going to get real uncomfortable once the rest of the medical community is telling Biden to move on rather than just the six members of his transition team.
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: Ksihkehe
If you want to play, then just read what you are offering your opinion on it.
Don't carry their water. There are a small group of members that are highly polarized and they are specifically targeting any COVID messages that don't fit the narrative. They give no scrutiny to anything that confirms their bias, but suddenly have become staunch defenders of sound science when confronted with something that doesn't confirm it.
I believe several of them don't understand any of the information they're looking at. Don't defend it. I'm not claiming, never did, that this study is valid. In defending them you become part of their cult. It's not worth it and it doesn't make you scientific to disagree with bad science. We need to disagree with all bad science, not just what goes against our biases.
There's room for an argument for vaccination, but there is also plenty of room for an argument that vaccination for COVID is a bad idea. It isn't as black and white as they'd have you believe. Let these members defend themselves, they're the ones that painted themselves into this corner.
originally posted by: bastion
a reply to: network dude
The authors applied a model (Brodersen et al) designed to analyse advertising and marketing impact to a pandemic. It's a completely irrelevant model - It's derived from Markov monte carlo chains which is the same stochastic field used in pandemic modelling but PLEIRS models are used to analyse that - not modelling designed for marketing:
originally posted by: macaronicaesar
best ATP post I have read in a long time. Thanks for this. Faith in humanity has been restored.
originally posted by: Ksihkehe
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: Ksihkehe
I have no clue what you're talking about. At least you admit that the paper in the OP is just bad statistics.
Of course you have no idea what I'm talking about, it's called confirmation bias.
originally posted by: MDDoxs
a reply to: Xcalibur254
The paper is garbage…period.
Perhaps you'd like to phone a friend to answer my questions about your ability to understand the studies you've presented, maybe we should ask the audience instead?
It sure seems like you and your pals don't want to talk to me directly since things went sideways for your narrative. It's going to get real uncomfortable once the rest of the medical community is telling Biden to move on rather than just the six members of his transition team.
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: Ksihkehe
If you want to play, then just read what you are offering your opinion on it.
Don't carry their water. There are a small group of members that are highly polarized and they are specifically targeting any COVID messages that don't fit the narrative. They give no scrutiny to anything that confirms their bias, but suddenly have become staunch defenders of sound science when confronted with something that doesn't confirm it.
I believe several of them don't understand any of the information they're looking at. Don't defend it. I'm not claiming, never did, that this study is valid. In defending them you become part of their cult. It's not worth it and it doesn't make you scientific to disagree with bad science. We need to disagree with all bad science, not just what goes against our biases.
There's room for an argument for vaccination, but there is also plenty of room for an argument that vaccination for COVID is a bad idea. It isn't as black and white as they'd have you believe. Let these members defend themselves, they're the ones that painted themselves into this corner.
originally posted by: bastion
a reply to: Ksihkehe
No it's a virus not a google click advert - ignoring reality, pretending viruses don't exist and how viruses spread and instead trying to analyse the data using a series of equations designed to monitor/predict mouse clicks on google advertising is plain dumb.
... but you can't ignore all maths and science and rely on soundbytes if you want to study the sciences.