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The Brilliant Ones Are Baffled

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The Brilliant Ones Are Baffled
https://townhall.com/columnists/tednoel ... d-n2569425
Epidemics aren’t about the details of protein coats, genomes, and binding sites. Those are what Fauci and Birx specialized in. But epidemics are about people getting infected and passing the infection on. By the time we started talking about lockdowns, we knew four salient facts. First, COVID-19 is a respiratory pathogen. While it can be passed by contact, it’s usually passed by droplet or aerosol. Second, it was already “in the wild.” That means that it has long since escaped containment. Third, as a coronavirus, it is easily neutralized by UV light, including sunlight. Fourth, it was primarily fatal in the sick and elderly population. The Kirkland, Washington nursing home disaster and Lombardy (Italy) had already made this very clear.
The lockdown was proposed by the “brightest minds,” who in fact were total idiots about practical epidemiology. They persisted in believing that a virus already in the wild could be contained by locking up the people who didn’t have it yet. The only way that could work was if everyone remained in solitary confinement with no food or water for 14 days. I think that just might have other effects that aren’t so good.

The brilliant Doctors Fauci and Birx proposed a “solution” that ran directly opposite to proven best practices. It ignored major facts already known and demonstrated. They persist in believing that they have acted in the best interests of America. Should we be surprised if they are baffled by the real world?
The only option other than "baffled" is that they are part of the group pursuing global control of the population, at least the portion of the population that they want to live.
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Houston shut down really really good for two then three weeks. Not being an epidemiologist, I assumed that after three weeks of a really good shut down the Houston numbers would drop to zero, and surely after four weeks. Well we are going on 9 weeks now and Houston's numbers are not really changing.

There is a steady 200 to 300 new cases everyday.
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philip964 wrote: Tue May 26, 2020 12:15 pm Houston shut down really really good for two then three weeks. Not being an epidemiologist, I assumed that after three weeks of a really good shut down the Houston numbers would drop to zero, and surely after four weeks. Well we are going on 9 weeks now and Houston's numbers are not really changing.

There is a steady 200 to 300 new cases everyday.
Numbers of cases are not an indication of seriousness....the increased number of cases are directly linked to increased testing. Every new “case” is not a new person sick with Covid-19 symptoms.
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The only way that could work was if everyone remained in solitary confinement with no food or water for 14 days. I think that just might have other effects that aren’t so good.
It's a bit hard to take these arguments seriously. Who said anything about no food or water? Where's that come from? What makes the author think that's "The only way that could work"? This is a patently ridiculous argument.
The brilliant Doctors Fauci and Birx proposed a “solution” that ran directly opposite to proven best practices. It ignored major facts already known and demonstrated. They persist in believing that they have acted in the best interests of America. Should we be surprised if they are baffled by the real world?


Likewise, the author states the proposed solution "ran directly opposite to proven best practices."

What "best practices"?
What "major facts already known and demonstrated"?

The author offers a lot of criticism, but no facts.
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