A good friend of mine is a doctor who is angling hard against the prevailing narrative of COVID. He believes the risks are over represented and the collateral damage is under considered.
We can’t talk about pandemic responses that target those at risk because we can’t discuss the risks that certain people have.
Lockdowns aren’t really working.
Not everyone is equally at risk.
Targeting places instead of populations isn’t strong policy.
And at the current rate, we’re only heading towards mandatory vaccines, of which the risks are not yet understood, and greater social control of our bodies when, perhaps, it’s not warranted.
We can’t say “this is how we beat it” when things are at their worst. There are, in fact, massive profit machines directing our response trajectory.
Intersectionalism has been a controversial social movement, and those who used it the most as a cultural talisman are universalizing the pandemic response. Ironic, and ineffective?
I don't think what you are doing is good. I think its contraproductive.
This narrative of 'is a doctor' doesn't make that person an expert.
In a global pandemic like this, i think, you need an expert group of people with a min and max size. Those people need to be in the right position to have access the most amount of data and they need to make suggestions and predictions as accurate as possible. This then needs to be taken by the current government to decide what to do.
Your type of 'doctors' shouldn't comment on it like they are experts; They should start doing research with proper tools and statistics to support the expert group at the top.
It is easy to say something doesn't work after a few days or weeks. Its just not helping. If experts are trying this, the chance, that your opinion was a fluke and now matches your expected outcome, doesn't make you an expert.
All those shitty people thinking wearing a mask is a absolut no go and strips them of their rights are a real problem.
In germany on the 'querdenker' people brought up and compared themselfs with anne frank and sophie scholl because of this. She was 22 when she was killed by the nazis through a guillotine in munich as a student because of distributing anti-war flyers.
Seeing this is one of my most frustrating experiences with our society so far. While there are a lot of people following those simple requests, its astounding how irrational people are in the usa.
Oh, doctors. They think they're experts in everything remotely related to medicine, public health, pharmacology, and often a lot more besides. Just being a doctor is in no way a qualification to speak sensibly about pandemics, economics, or anything else outside their particular narrow field of training and experience.
Using motor oil on a daily basis doesn't qualify my car mechanic as an expert on the international oil supply chain; dealing with individual sick people doesn't qualify a doctor as an epidemiologist or economist. Maybe in this particular case your doctor friend IS an actual epidemiologist or economist, but I suspect that's not that case.
As if being a doctor prequalifies him for anything but commenting on the state of affairs in this hospital or office he happens to work in. I went to school with mostly medical students and was not at all impressed with the types of people that gravitate toward that field. They often cut corners, are very uninterested in what they study and I am not at all surprised with the numbers of malpractice cases and misdiagnosis afoot in the medical industry.
We should say due to Covid lockdown. The truth allows us to address costs better.
Additional suicides 'due' to Covid lockdown in October was only ~600 deaths vs 2000 direct Covid deaths for the year.
This years suicide count in Japan is overall the same as last year at the same time.
More men are dying from Covid lockdown suicides.
This month is the first month it became about women, and only this particular month. Not when you look at yearly data.
You could argue when we see such a big jump in one month for women it means we need to start targeting them. This is 100% true. Sadly the reverse about men has not happened for the other months so if we are gender neutral about people dying it's be nice to target everyone, just a thought.
I'd speculate Japan will foretell the USA. This will keep increasing. We are just starting to hit the economic and social downfall stage. But suicide will jump back to men, and I'd guess again forgotten.
In Japan more people died from suicide last month than smallpox, so I guess the whole smallpox vaccine was a bust? Tbh I can’t wrap my head around why people keep sharing this article like it means something. Is it just math illiteracy? The question that they are clearly trying to answer is ‘is the problem worse than the cure’ but instead of measuring the change in covid deaths due to lockdown and comparing that to the change in suicides due to lockdown, they are comparing the total deaths in each category. That makes as much sense as “I’m currently 120 miles from Chicago and it’s 2:00, so dividing 120 by 2 I figure I’m going 60 mph.”
It is not a valid way to “show” how bad suicide is. Otherwise you could make the same comparison in New Zealand and the US and “show” that suicide is an orders of magnitude smaller problem in the US and an orders of magnitude greater problem in New Zealand.
How is that not a valid comparison. That is exactly the sort of thing people use over here to show our terrible youth suicide rate. NZ is not far behind Japan it's a problem worth talking about.
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We can’t talk about pandemic responses that target those at risk because we can’t discuss the risks that certain people have.
Lockdowns aren’t really working.
Not everyone is equally at risk.
Targeting places instead of populations isn’t strong policy.
And at the current rate, we’re only heading towards mandatory vaccines, of which the risks are not yet understood, and greater social control of our bodies when, perhaps, it’s not warranted.
We can’t say “this is how we beat it” when things are at their worst. There are, in fact, massive profit machines directing our response trajectory.
Intersectionalism has been a controversial social movement, and those who used it the most as a cultural talisman are universalizing the pandemic response. Ironic, and ineffective?
This narrative of 'is a doctor' doesn't make that person an expert.
In a global pandemic like this, i think, you need an expert group of people with a min and max size. Those people need to be in the right position to have access the most amount of data and they need to make suggestions and predictions as accurate as possible. This then needs to be taken by the current government to decide what to do.
Your type of 'doctors' shouldn't comment on it like they are experts; They should start doing research with proper tools and statistics to support the expert group at the top.
It is easy to say something doesn't work after a few days or weeks. Its just not helping. If experts are trying this, the chance, that your opinion was a fluke and now matches your expected outcome, doesn't make you an expert.
All those shitty people thinking wearing a mask is a absolut no go and strips them of their rights are a real problem.
In germany on the 'querdenker' people brought up and compared themselfs with anne frank and sophie scholl because of this. She was 22 when she was killed by the nazis through a guillotine in munich as a student because of distributing anti-war flyers.
Seeing this is one of my most frustrating experiences with our society so far. While there are a lot of people following those simple requests, its astounding how irrational people are in the usa.
Using motor oil on a daily basis doesn't qualify my car mechanic as an expert on the international oil supply chain; dealing with individual sick people doesn't qualify a doctor as an epidemiologist or economist. Maybe in this particular case your doctor friend IS an actual epidemiologist or economist, but I suspect that's not that case.
We should say due to Covid lockdown. The truth allows us to address costs better.
Additional suicides 'due' to Covid lockdown in October was only ~600 deaths vs 2000 direct Covid deaths for the year.
This years suicide count in Japan is overall the same as last year at the same time.
More men are dying from Covid lockdown suicides.
This month is the first month it became about women, and only this particular month. Not when you look at yearly data.
You could argue when we see such a big jump in one month for women it means we need to start targeting them. This is 100% true. Sadly the reverse about men has not happened for the other months so if we are gender neutral about people dying it's be nice to target everyone, just a thought.
I'd speculate Japan will foretell the USA. This will keep increasing. We are just starting to hit the economic and social downfall stage. But suicide will jump back to men, and I'd guess again forgotten.
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00864/october-saw-rapi...