« Reply #5224 on: September 20, 2024, 05:45:10 pm »
'Experts' Who Lied To Us About COVID Confused Why We Didn't Listen To ThemIan MillerSeptember 19, 2024 5:46 PM EDT
WASHINGTON, DC - National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins holds up a model of the coronavirus as he testifies before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee looking into the budget estimates for National Institute of Health (NIH) and the state of medical research on Capitol Hill on May 26, 2021. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger-Pool/Getty Images)https://www.outkick.com/analysis/experts-who-lied-us-about-covid-confused-why-we-didnt-listen-themFrancis Collins Shows Insanity Of ‘Experts’ Is A Permanent FeatureMasks and mask mandates were a defining feature of the pandemic, thanks in part to ever-shifting guidance from The Experts™. CDC and other organizations initially said that masks should not be worn, with Anthony Fauci infamously explaining that they didn't help or provide the assumed amount of protection. Then weeks later, after pressure from a sociologist's column in The New York Times, they altered course. Collins' suggestion that asymptomatic transmission was the justification for masking is absurd. The flu is spread asymptomatically, yet the CDC and other public health organizations never recommended masking to stop transmission because all the studies and data showed that they were ineffective. If, as Collins says, there "wasn't much data to go on" in a fast moving pandemic, there's no reasonable, justifiable way for these agencies to abandon decades of data in favor of guesswork.This kind of incompetence and poor reasoning skills is precisely why trust in the "Experts" disintegrated. And Collins wasn't, and isn't done taking a blowtorch to his credibility yet.More Gaslighting And Lying From ‘The Experts’Collins claims that "data" shows that the measures he and Fauci supported were effective. Lying repeatedly and profusely in the process."Today, many argue that these measures in the first few months of the pandemic were too draconian," Collins says. "Some even say they did more harm than good. But a detailed 2021 evidence-based analysis of the outcomes of ‘flatten the curve’ measures in 41 countries showed that most of them provided benefit in reducing transmission during the first wave of the pandemic. Of the various measures, closing schools and universities and limiting gatherings to 10 people or fewer had the most significant effect. Closing nonessential businesses delivering personal services (such as gyms and hair salons) had a moderate effect. Targeted closures of face-to-face businesses with a high risk of infection, such as restaurants, bars, and nightclubs, had a small to moderate effect. Adding a stay-at-home order provided only a small additional benefit to these other measures. Those are the data."That is not remotely what the data shows. Because it's not data, it's modeling.
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