Where do you think most of the info those publish comes from? Who is the medical community reporting to?
Not saying I agree or disagree with the decision to “ hold things back” as the article says I do agree with this quote in the article.
This is exactly what I've been talking about.
They put it nicely. In reality, there is no "might". Whatever is released "will" be misinterpreted, likely even deliberately.
It seems to me that not releasing information makes the CDC appear less credible.They put it nicely. In reality, there is no "might". Whatever is released "will" be misinterpreted, likely even deliberately.
There was a twitter thread similar to this article, where it was pointed out that the "pandemic of the unvaccinated" talking point presents a false sense of security. Much like the "mild" talking point dismisses lots of impact. That there are many (raw number not rate) vaccinated people that are impacted. The majority of the replies accused the person of being Anti-Vax, which wasn't the point they were trying to make, even if they made it a little clumsy.
The anti-vax groups have coopted reporting so much that it distorts all discussion. This looks like one more example of the CDC hedging to that avoid instead of address that distortion. I would prefer they deal with it, even if it's hard, instead of trying to avoid it.
Is this page relatively new at the CDC?
COVID Data Tracker
CDC’s home for COVID-19 data. Visualizations, graphs, and data in one easy-to-use website.covid.cdc.gov
I'm sure there are groups that look at those charts and immediately say they show that the vaccine doesn't work. To me, what they show is that the unvaccinated raise the overall levels of transmission so much, that even the reduced impact to the vaccinated is raised to an impactful raw number and increased rate. Since the vaccine is a reduction vs unvaccinated and not a forcefield. Better reporting on this would go a long way.
Isn't that what I said?
Sir, this is the Internet, that simply does NOT happen.I was agreeing with you.
Look, I will tolerate many things in the name of public health. But if you are going to say that I can't do something as basic as going out for dinner and an orgy, I'm afraid we're going to have to part ways.
Unfortunately you need a test that is proctored. These won't be good for that. Mine does expire end of the year - cannot recall what date but pretty far out. We now have more tests than we need I think but who knows. When we purchased some we were getting so many close contact reports that we bought when we could and wound up using only a few vs all like I feared we would.
Correct, that " honor system" test prior to travel doesn't cut .
The camera is on the entire time. Someone is watching. You could try to swap, but you could get caught.
I know two individuals (that have no major health concerns) that are still living the way they were in March and April 2020. For nearly two years now they have essentially not left their homes, and when they have for essential reasons suit up like they are going into a biohazard.
Even as a pro-mask person I do understand the harm that this pandemic has caused and the damage it does to the mental health of a lot of people. It is sad that it was even necessary in the first place.