And you are free to believe that! I just see you as irrational, so whatevs. |
The Democrats started caving on this issue pretty quickly, and all at the same time. I’d love to be a fly on the wall when they started getting the polling data. The Virginia gubernatorial election must have really spooked them, as well. |
How in the hell do you know whether or not I will go out of my way to help others?! Because you’re so busy spinning your own reality and narrative that paints you as a saint that you NEED that to be true.. Ending mask mandates is now politically motivated?!?! By Democratic governors?! Oh, okay. Maybe try following the science that you were screaming about a year ago and stop adjusting it to fit your own narrative. And no, I don’t need to be told to do ANYTHING, especially by someone who has lost her grip on reality. The mandates are there for a reason, and when they’re lifted, there’s a reason. You know better HOW again? Or are you so SELFISH with your pathetic fears and anxieties that you expect us all to cower to your needs? Nope. Get over yourself. You can keep repeating yourself and telling us how virtuous you are but no one is buying it. |
CNN Medical “Expert” Dr Lena Wen says “the science has changed” and the Federal government should no longer be requiring masks mandates. |
The phrase “changing science” is why ordinary thinking people have started to become skeptical of science. Science is supposed to be fact. If something isn’t based on facts, then it’s not science. Saying “it’s the best science we have at the time” is pathetic. Science is binary. Something either is, or it isn’t. It doesn’t change. Anything that doesn’t fit into those two boxes isn’t science. The greatest tragedy of this entire stupid pandemic is the damage done to the credibility and reputation of ACTUAL science. There’s now at least a couple generations who will forever be skeptical of “the science” because of idiots like that. |
So it IS all about virtue signaling ![]() |
I generally agree with your sentiment but math is really what you’re thinking of. Science is not binary. It is certainly uncertain. And the problem with many of our experts is they don’t understand uncertainty and don’t bother explaining it if they do. Fauci is a terrible communicator because from the beginning he has not answered truthfully with respect to what was known and the associated uncertainty. |
![]() Are you the same troglodyte who is lumping people who don't mask when it's not mandated to people who don't move their car up at the gas station? So, so bizarre. And btw - who pays inside the gas station anymore? |
This is someone who obviously doesn't get science. Or thinks of science as a kindergartener would. |
I did respond. States are taking down the mandates. Left and right leaning states alike. They know better than you do. I am not talking about living completely without fear and taking no precautions at all. I am talking about where we are now vs. a year ago. The time to fear has passed. The time to live again is back. |
DP Please explain to all of us what you think the word “science” means. Because I think “science” means the objective study of things around us that starts with a hypothesis, undergoes testing via scientific methods, and yields an answer that is a verifiable and repeatable fact. That’s science to me. I don’t think science “evolves” as the mood of the public and political polls change. |
Let's go with wikipedia: "a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe." It doesn't say anything about "binary" or "is or isn't" or "doesn't change". Can you tell us what a "verifiable and repeatable fact" means? Is this binary? Why did you put quotes are evolve? Do you think science gets better as more information is gathered? |
DP... That statement above needs an asterisk: * left leaning states are gradually, cautiously taking down mandates as the deaths, hospitalizations and death numbers decline right leaning states are carelessly taking down mandates regardless of numbers, because FREEDOM |