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Wesley Hoyle's avatar

In the words of Bret Weinstein who has been an incorrigible wild card on multiple facets of the COVID discussion, "welcome to complex systems."

The most solidly supported conclusion of all is that it turns out it's really difficult to do good science and urgency does not excuse the need for it.

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Lillia Gajewski's avatar

I love your balanced posts. Regarding counting hospitalizations, I went digging through the Montana COVID site way at the beginning, and they fully admit that they count a "COVID hospitalization" as both those hospitalized *for* COVID and those who test positive while in the hospital. From which we can conclude, you can go in for elective knee surgery, test positive for COVID, be asymptomatic, and still show up as a "COVID hospitalization." I suspect this is similar across states, and yes it is a highly ludicrous and deceptive practice and does not inspire confidence once you begin to understand how bad the data is but how much they act like it's something we all must take uber seriously. It's all a really big joke with a really bad punchline.

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