[ExI] the science might be wrong

[Omar Rahman]

> On 20 Jan 2021, at 16:09, extropy-chat-request at lists.extropy.org wrote:
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>> On 20 Jan 2021, at 07:30, extropy-chat-request at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat-request at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 2:49 PM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>> wrote:
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>> Epidemiology is part of medical science, the methods to contain epidemics
>> are not invented by politicians.
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>> -
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>> ### Epidemiologists are against lockdowns but politicians are willing to
>> pay a lot to some epidemiologists to provide justifications for increasing
>> their political power, and there are always clowns willing to lie.
>> 
>> Rafal
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>> 
>> Do I even need to YODA this? "Epidemiologists are against lockdowns?
>> 
>> To paraphrase: A quarantine, by any other name, helps keep the airborne
>> droplets out of your smeller holes.
>> 
> 
> ### At what cost, boy, at what cost?

At almost no cost, child, at almost no cost.

Maybe that’s your problem Rafal, you are framing things in terms of cost instead of health outcomes.

> Epidemiologists since forever pointed out that quarantines don't work once
> there is widespread community spread of a highly infectious agent. This is
> received wisdom, basic epidemiology and yet you behave as if I was saying
> something outrageous.

You’ve got it backwards, community spread is the signal for further and stricter quarantine measures, not to despair and start coughing on Grandma.

You see, by disrupting the regular action of the community, you disrupt community spread.


> I will close with some of your wise word to REFLECT on; ? ...there are
> always clowns willing to lie.?
> 
> 
### Your meaning is unclear here. Would you mind explaining it to me?

It means, look in a goddamned mirror Rafal.

Omar





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