I've seen quite a bit of nonsense from a variety of people pushing a narrative of "our kids will have PTSD from this year" and "we'll never undo the damage" from the lost schooling.
Horse shit.
In the wake of Gagarin's historic flight, let me remind you that he lost nearly *4 years* of schooling during the German occupation. I think he did OK.
Yes, we will need to conduct some remedial education, but if kids suffer from this, it will be due to lack of will to put resources against the problem. I would also note many of the people screaming about this are loathe to spend tax money on education in normal times.
And any PTSD kids have will be from memories of adults who could not get their shit together to protect themselves and society.
You want to know what generation had PTSD? The one that lived through the Depression. They hoarded canned goods in their basement until expiry for the rest of their lives.
You know who from this generation will have PTSD? Those who lost loved ones due to the idiocy of the "open wide" morons.
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Where is Tyson coming from? A knee-jerk response to the post-modernist nonsense of the '90s, where tenured idiots maintained that the fact that scientists were biased meant that the scientific process was, regardless of time span, not deserving of privilege as a "way of knowing".
This is 100% wrong. Rare events with significant health impact regularly result in FDA clinical holds, temporary restrictions in distribution, or even permanent withdrawal. The FDA is more apt to act the the wider the use of the drug in people with no other health concerns.
For example, birth control gets more scrutiny than oncology drugs.
Trovafloxacin was withdrawn in the EU and severely restricted in the US based on 14 cases of liver failure in roughly 2.5 million administrations.
The public health risk / benefit calculation is also affected by other drugs on the market. The fact that we have 2 other effective vaccines without this cloud hanging over them also influences the FDA's decision.
There are a few people who follow me on here at least in part because of COVID, and for those I want to riff on this finding to explain some of my current attitudes, and in the true spirit of a Cargo Cult Scientist, also explain what data will *make me change my mind*.
So @sailorrooscout is an expert, so definitely listen to what they have to say about T cells and other elements of the immune system.
But you will have also, almost definitely, heard right wing pundits, especially a few months ago, espousing the idea that T cell immunity was sufficient for protection from COVID.
For all the stupid motherfuckers out there arguing that (and I quote this figure from some stupid motherfucker arguing with me) 99.97% of people will be fine.
First of all: your math is wrong. The 10:1 assumption on symptomatic to asymptomatic cases is just that: an assumption. Maybe true in NY and NJ, likely not elsewhere ... yet.
Second, just sticking to cases, and not stopping tom punch holes in the "a quarter of Americans have had it, so HERD IMMUNITY, YAY!!!" complete and utter horse shit you're peddling, we we had 143K new cases yesterday, and that's *without* the Thanksgiving surge in 5-7 days hence.
I understand why @C_Stroop has an anaphylactic reaction to calling the kinds of Evangelicals who wholly support Trump "fake Christians", but I was just reminded of why it's always a temptation for me.
The Evangelicals and Fundies have this expression "committed Christian" for themselves.
There is the not-so-subtle implication that everyone who doesn't believe what they do, or pepper every single phrase with God-bothering nonsense is not as committed to their faith.
So it's reeeeeeally tempting to return the favor by calling them fake Christians when they exhibit their typical exclusionary and mean-spirited behaviors.