It's a lovely narrative because you can't in a particular case (one person) know how it would have turned out without the drug. There can be no control with which to compare with only one patient.
This has been generalized - no matter how tragic the last 3 years have been, it can be argued it could have been worse if we'd not done all…
It's a lovely narrative because you can't in a particular case (one person) know how it would have turned out without the drug. There can be no control with which to compare with only one patient.
This has been generalized - no matter how tragic the last 3 years have been, it can be argued it could have been worse if we'd not done all the crazy stuff. But we do have some controls (though small). And we seen from the controls that outcomes for places without the crazy stuff have been better. So clinging to this "it would have been much worse" view defies logic and reason, but it seems too readily accepted by too many people. A true pragmatist would look at the outcomes and see that what we did clearly did not work - we're still talking about COVID scares 3 years after we first heard of it. But logic and reason are no longer allowed...labeled misinformation and denial.
It's a lovely narrative because you can't in a particular case (one person) know how it would have turned out without the drug. There can be no control with which to compare with only one patient.
This has been generalized - no matter how tragic the last 3 years have been, it can be argued it could have been worse if we'd not done all the crazy stuff. But we do have some controls (though small). And we seen from the controls that outcomes for places without the crazy stuff have been better. So clinging to this "it would have been much worse" view defies logic and reason, but it seems too readily accepted by too many people. A true pragmatist would look at the outcomes and see that what we did clearly did not work - we're still talking about COVID scares 3 years after we first heard of it. But logic and reason are no longer allowed...labeled misinformation and denial.