COVID SKEPTICISM RE: a quote: “covid is bullshit” from a tweeter I have a job. M

COVID SKEPTICISM

RE: a quote: “covid is bullshit” from a tweeter

I have a job. My job is to be more precise than that.

What you and others like you are saying: you’ve no elites you can trust to tell you the truth, you haven’t specialized knowledge to decide yourselves, and you are very (justly) skeptical of all information because of it, given the untrustworthiness of media and government.

I do my job the best I can to help fill that gap a bit. And this is all you need to know:

With months of solid data: Covid is ~5x the morality, ~2x-10x the Contagion vs the flu. And the total increase in deaths approximately equals the claimed increase in covid related deaths. So while covid isn’t the Spanish flu, the measles, smallpox, or polio, it’s costly to treat, and lethal enough to those with undiagnosed vulnerabilities, the unfit, unhealthy, and aged to be cautious, and it’s serious ENOUGH to require some sort of political action.

The only thing I can find wrong with this year is (a) the information out of china was untrustworthy and until Italy spiked it wasn’t believable. (b) the president was so concerned about protecting the economy and having this used against him, and unable to trust what he was being told that he failed to put together a team reporting ONLY on the scientific findings and quashing speculation, (c) the CDC and who crashed and burned (d) the media created drama for clicks, ears and eyeballs (e) it was used against the president (f) used against the middle class, (g) used by Antifa-BLM.

So how we politically, informationally, and socially respond is different from the risk. We are handling this episode poorly but it is part of the cost of living in the most free society on earth. The risk is non trivial but not catastrophic.

If one of these mutations succeeds in doubling either transmissibility or mortality then that’s going to be something else.