Consider, who largely employs such, if not in academia?
Consider, what would be the inducements, express or implied, if one occupied such a position?
Consider, right now people will go to work sick, not have time for vaccination, or skip COVID tests and quarantining, just to keep their jobs.
Is this rationale more or less applicable to people with higher salaries?
Is the rationale stronger or weaker if the action was not related to sickness but to research?
Is the rationale stronger or weaker if you are member of a community of likeminded individuals and are you incentivized to break ranks with these people or not?
from above
from "Learning from SARS", report by Health Canada.
It's always funny to me that virologists get everything and transmission so wrong. I guess because they work with viruses they think they know everything about them. 🤷
The sad part is we would assume that because they work with viruses they know everything about them.
*everything about
Virologists don't really work on transmission. Maybe sometimes they spin a tub and flip some in the air or something. But they don't really know what's going on. And then the doctors know the biological clinical side of things but they don't work on transmission either.
Just remember the ladder of denial and elite panic myth means if you are hearing a 2 it's a 4. If a 4 it's a 6. If a 6 pack your bags. You'll never hear 8 and up the TV will just play static
Has anyone worked up the ladder of denial for bird flu?
- We have not found bird flu.
- We have found bird flu in one bird. There is no evidence of bird to bird transmission.
- We have found bird flu in many birds and there is bird to bird transmission but it has not moved to other mammals.
- We have found bird flu in a cow. However, we have not found evidence of cow to cow transmission.
- We have now found bird flu in many cows.
- We have now found evidence of cow to cow transmission but we do not know how this is happening.
- We found some bird flu in the milk. You should not worry because this might not be live virus. However, for some reason, we now think milk is the vector of transmission.