The Coronavirus, not the beer
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acesfull86
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https://nypost.com/2023/12/28/opinion/oh-now-our-public-health-poohbahs-tell-us-our-covid-approach-was-narrow-minded/
Francis Collins, the former of the National Institutes of Health during the pandemic and current science adviser to President Biden, noted that he and his colleagues demonstrated an “unfortunate” narrow-mindedness.
This is a welcome, if belated, confession.
Not too long ago, anyone who said that epidemiologists might be overly focused on disease prevention to the exclusion of other concerns — you know, like jobs, mental health and schooling — were dismissed as reckless nihilists who didn’t care if their fellow citizens died en masse.
Now, Francis Collins has weighed in to tell us that many of the people considered close-minded and anti-science during COVID were advancing an appropriately balanced view of the trade-offs inherent in the pandemic response.
“If you’re a public health person, and you’re trying to make a decision, you have this very narrow view of what the right decision is,” Collins said at an event earlier this year that garnered attention online the last couple of days.
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Francis Collins, again: “So you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life. You attach zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never quite recover from.”
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I mean…
Francis Collins, the former of the National Institutes of Health during the pandemic and current science adviser to President Biden, noted that he and his colleagues demonstrated an “unfortunate” narrow-mindedness.
This is a welcome, if belated, confession.
Not too long ago, anyone who said that epidemiologists might be overly focused on disease prevention to the exclusion of other concerns — you know, like jobs, mental health and schooling — were dismissed as reckless nihilists who didn’t care if their fellow citizens died en masse.
Now, Francis Collins has weighed in to tell us that many of the people considered close-minded and anti-science during COVID were advancing an appropriately balanced view of the trade-offs inherent in the pandemic response.
“If you’re a public health person, and you’re trying to make a decision, you have this very narrow view of what the right decision is,” Collins said at an event earlier this year that garnered attention online the last couple of days.
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Francis Collins, again: “So you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life. You attach zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never quite recover from.”
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I mean…
Random internet posters here called this in real time.
BL of course on the wrong side of the argument.
cajunrevenge
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I too only accept peoples opinions when and if they agree with me.
cajunrevenge
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Tapate50
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100%
acesfull86
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“The United States is over-policed and has a mass incarceration problem!”
- said the 50% of (D) who want to catch and lock up millions of Americans who don’t want a flu vaccine
cajunrevenge
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That is a symptom not the real issue. The real issue is we give the government the power to take kids from parents for BS reasons then place the kids somewhere they get abused and the government then claims it's not their fault.
sturg33
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The saddest part is not a single person will face accountability since our only prayer of doing that we decided to nominate the self proclaimed "father of the vaccine"
Tapate50
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That and the economy are 1/2 for me on topics this election
All this info shows you now is who continues to be willfully ignorant
sturg33
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So called critical thinkers of the right wing media want covid amnesty bc they know Trump is complicit. It's Trump above everything to these people
This is a lunatic. But if Tim insists we can't talk about covid because it was 4 years ago... then I would kindly ask he stop whining about the election 4 years ago
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This is a lunatic. But if Tim insists we can't talk about covid because it was 4 years ago... then I would kindly ask he stop whining about the election 4 years ago
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