Originally posted by reh321 Science is continually learning, and adjusting as conditions change.
That does not means that they are constantly “changing their minds” ….
the facts are changing, and they are adjusting to reflect the changing conditions.
For example, Dr. Fauci originally said we common folk should save masks for the professionals -
the local industries responded to the need {Governor of Indiana arranged for clothing companies to manufacture PPE,
and set up a web site to sell them}, and people like my sister starting sewing them.
They originally said people should make heavy use of hand sanitizer, but over time learned that most transmission is via air droplets.
At one time, the best science was that the world was flat and that drilling a hole in a person's skull in the presence of a goat was a cure for insanity.
While science has moved on, I expect there are still people out there who are convinced that pictures taken from the ISS are somehow doctored and who keep a power drill and a goat just in case.
We are seeing similar things with this pandemic. People hear what was said early on, and have made the erroneous decision to claim that the scientists "keep changing their minds" rather than that the scientists are learning as they go.
There is a rather large group of people who have decided that their willful ignorance is a virtue rather than a character flaw. Sadly, this same group is very close to grabbing the levers of power, and if they manage it, God help us all.
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Originally posted by Rondec Big Pharma has turned into a dirty word and perhaps for good reasons. They haven't always behaved well in the past and there have been different cover ups through the years. At the same time, they have developed quite a bit of know-how through the years and it was helpful to bring that to bear on the issues surrounding COVID. While there have been around 850,000 deaths in the US from COVID, there could have been many more than that.
There could also have been a lot fewer, had there been competent leadership at the helm. Canada has had just over 30k deaths from covid, or about 1/3 the number of deaths in the USA when corrected for population.
Why? Mostly because we have had competent leadership throughout the pandemic who have been unified in their messaging.
---------- Post added Jan 4th, 2022 at 09:09 AM ----------
Originally posted by akptc If you want to take a break from the mainstream media paid-for drivel and ingest some actual information for thinking people I would recommend starting with this fairly easy to digest
article.
Disclaimer - I am not affiliated with any side or media, just a happy owner of a brain.
You are joking I hope. The epoch times dispensing actual information for thinking people?
All I can say is I'm glad I didn't have a mouthful of coffee when I read your post.