valvemonkey91 said:
If she is a vet, I'm sure she can get her hands on some Ivermectin fairly easy.
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Thanks to you all for your comments. It's been interesting to see that people say when they hide behind pseudonyms.
I respect that you showed up on here to give your side.H andrews-polymenis said:Faustus said:
I just kind of assume she got wind of this thread, and didn't want to be a focal point for concerted pushback.
It's all well and good to tweet what you want, but it's probably not much fun to singled out for it on a heavily trafficked website where opposing views can be expressed rather vehemently. Notwithstanding a Doctor noting she has cancer, from which her concerns may spring, she's been attacked for her looks, degrees (although the Dr Dr riffs have been funny and light hearted), called a cockroach for shielding her tweets, and a lot of other personal things apart from the posts taking issue with the substance of the tweet.
I'd duck out too rather than face F16's ire. (That's not really true, I kind of enjoy it).
Agreed liberal discourse is sadly stunted.
Yes indeed, I did get wind. Thank you Faustus for your reasoned comment.
Thanks to you all for your comments. It's been interesting to see that people say when they hide behind pseudonyms.
By far the most fun has been imagining how you all think that my personal political beliefs might spill into the content that I teach. How one would incorporate political ideology into lectures about diarrhea I honestly have no idea.
Regarding COVID, my expertise is in infectious diseases so it makes sense that I watch this outbreak very carefully and with concern. I myself lost 6 family members to cancer last year- and was unable to travel (bc covid) or attend any services for any of them… including my dad who died one year ago today of pancreatic cancer. I was unable to see him in person before he died. As for myself, yes I have had pancreatic cancer since 2019. This is a cancer with a dismal prognosis-10% survival for 5 years. I am fully vaccinated and mask everywhere. I had 17 months of very tough chemotherapy, and was hospitalized 5 times last year- including for a Whipple procedure. For those of you that don't know- the only surgery tougher than a Whipple is transplant surgery. I was alone in hospital bc covid policies don't allow visitors. I'm currently dealing with a metastasis of my cancer and if you all think that a few flaming comments on the Internet posted by my some sock puppets might bother me- well, that's just sad given all the life and death **** I have going on.
For those who want to make fun of my sobbing- I dare you to endure just one of the things I personally have been through in the last year and remain standing. I sincerely hope that you will never have to.
Finally, you all seem to have so many questions about me. I will not answer them in this forum, but if you have questions for me please feel free to email me and I will happily answer (within reason of course). I will not answer anonymous questions or trolls.
I agree with all of this. Political discourse these days is rougher than it should be. This isn't unique to F16.Faustus said:
I just kind of assume she got wind of this thread, and didn't want to be a focal point for concerted pushback.
It's all well and good to tweet what you want, but it's probably not much fun to singled out for it on a heavily trafficked website where opposing views can be expressed rather vehemently. Notwithstanding a Doctor noting she has cancer, from which her concerns may spring, she's been attacked for her looks, degrees (although the Dr Dr riffs have been funny and light hearted), called a cockroach for shielding her tweets, and a lot of other personal things apart from the posts taking issue with the substance of the tweet.
I'd duck out too rather than face F16's ire. (That's not really true, I kind of enjoy it).
Agreed liberal discourse is sadly stunted.
H andrews-polymenis said:
https://files.fast.ai/papers/masks_lit_review.pdf
No problem. Thank you for your question. I also find this information to be digestible but longish. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent
Well then she's free to not attend the game.docaggie said:
If you'd scroll through her twitter timeline, you'd see why she's concerned.
Flame away, but she should probably be cut a little slack given her life situation. She has cancer - a bad one - and is immunocompromised as a result. She's concerned about getting COVID on top of that, that she won't be able to fight both. And she's right, getting COVID in her condition would be really bad. Take a minute to see life from her viewpoint, where she's vaccinated, masked, but could still potentially get a virus that would not be a cake walk for someone in her shoes.
Now, she's definitely on the liberal end of the spectrum, politically Would I be posting out there for twitter about masking a full stadium? No. But I can see where her fear is coming from.
2020 also led to hundreds of millions of additional people to be malnurished, many of whom starved to death, thanks to the lock downs. This is never to my knowledge lamented by our 'liberal' friends as a reason to end lockdowns/masks/economic slow downs covid responses have created.Quote:
Rising Youth Despair
Youth despair amid lockdowns and related public health orders appears to be worsening. While US aggregate suicide data for 2020 won't be available for a couple of years, due to reporting lags, state and county level data reveal dismal trends. In Pima County, Arizona suicides were up 67 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year for children ages 12 to 17, and statewide childhood suicides had also increased since 2019. West Virginia has seen a spike in student suicide attempts during the pandemic. Parts of Wisconsin reported skyrocketing suicide rates among young people in 2020, while hospitals in Texas and North Carolina are seeing more young suicidal patients.
CDC data show a 24 percent increase in emergency room mental health visits for children ages 5 to 11, compared to 2019. Among adolescents ages 12 to 17, that increase is 31 percent. Last summer, the CDC reported that one in four young adults had contemplated suicide in the previous month.
Harvard University biostatistician, Martin Kulldorff, told The Wall Street Journal that "you can't just look at COVID, you have to look holistically at health and consider the collateral damage." One of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, Kulldorff adds: "You can't just look short-term."
What Kulldorff and other public health researchers expose is the fact that there are tradeoffs to any policy. "If it saves just one life," a mantra echoed during the COVID response as a rallying cry for lockdowns, fails to acknowledge the lives damaged or lost due to these lockdown policies.
Lockdown harms and deaths are as real as COVID harms and deaths and should be taken seriously when considering a holistic pandemic response.
Economists scrutinize tradeoffs, and many have been highlighting COVID-related tradeoffs since last spring. As FEE's Antony Davies and James Harrigan wrote in April: "Regardless of whether we acknowledge them, tradeoffs exist. And acknowledging tradeoffs is an important part of constructing sound policy."
Agree completely.cecil77 said:
Thank you for taking the time. Serious question: Where is the data and physics of masking? I can find little that is supportive of masking, and the vast majority of both data and physics indicates that reliance upon masking is foolish. Why do obviously intelligent people develop a believe system that masking of the general public does any good? Indeed, I can make an argument that they are just aerosol creators more than anything.
Cecil Albrecht
Boerne, Texas
This. And specifically the nonsense that "my mask protects you, your mask protects me".cecil77 said:
Thank you for taking the time. Serious question: Where is the data and physics of masking? I can find little that is supportive of masking, and the vast majority of both data and physics indicates that reliance upon masking is foolish. Why do obviously intelligent people develop a believe system that masking of the general public does any good? Indeed, I can make an argument that they are just aerosol creators more than anything.
Cecil Albrecht
Boerne, Texas
H andrews-polymenis said:
https://files.fast.ai/papers/masks_lit_review.pdf
No problem. Thank you for your question. I also find this information to be digestible but longish. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent
2) Per the CDC, there is no known study showing masks help stop the spread of Covid pic.twitter.com/aqBW9Men7j
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 9, 2021
Can you provide a link that proves they do? Also, there are several of what you ask for on this very thread.CDUB98 said:
A lot of you keep saying masks don't work, but never provide any links to support it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all against the mask mandate, but if we're going to keep trotting out the line they don't work, we need to link the sources.
There is very little evidence.CDUB98 said:
1) I'm not trying to prove they do
2) I cannot keep up with a thread this long.
