@synlogic He is an old friend of the family (has been over to eat dinner with my mom and dad multiple times). So i am admitidly bias in the sense that I have some sense of him that others may not from the media.
That said I do feel his racism is transparent even if one reviews his public record. 1) he started his career and spent most of the initial part of his career fighting to keep segregation alive. He specifically stated the reason was because he didnt want his white child going to school with other minorities in what he deemed (his words) a "racial jungle". So its clearly established he has deeply racist roots that defined much of the start of his career.
Later it becomes more subtle. Afterall Biden like any smart politician will do what he needs to remain in power. So once racism started to become something that hurt him he moved from oppression to exploitation. Now he exploits minorities by giving them oppertunities (for example in cabinet roles) that are still subservient to him, but such candidates would be a fool to decline for career purposes. In effect taking the "im not racist i have black friends" approach to racism by exploiting them to make himself look good.
It is obvious all the smae underlying racism remains, however, based on how he speaks. For example the famous line he made just a year or two ago "If you dont vote for me, you ain't black" when asked about black voters who dont like him. This is revealing for two reasons 1) he thinks he knows better for blacks what is good for them than they even know themselves, and disagreeing with him, a white person, on whats best for a black person would mean you loose your black card (whatever the hell that means). and 2) his use of broken english "ain't" a word he never normally uses shows that he relates black people to being uneducated and he felt that by expressing himself in broken english he would appeal more to black people, clearly showing his racist way of thinking.
@Moon Much appreciated. Thank you.
@PHolder Huh? What does Web 3.0 or crypto have to do with anything?
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I mean I literally do #2 for a living. Just spent several years getting good data regarding COVID-19.. it costs a lot of money, but no not pulled out of our ass.
> Personally, wastewater is the only data I trust as the other two you listed can be cooked/ manipulated.
I trust data regarding the severity of COVID by counting the number of green apples on a tree in my yard because it would be very hard to manipulate that data.
Data being hard to manipulate doesnt really help you when it has no relevance of any kind to the thing you are trying to measure (severity of a disease in a population).
> Deaths don't show severity of a disease. I'm so sick of death being the determiner of how bad #Covid is when so many, sooooooo many people are alive with #LongCovid
Depends on what your trying to measure. Death is certainly one way of measuring severity, one particular kind of severity. But you are right that other metrics need to be considered along side that, namely morbidity as a whole.
Two suggestions 1) be sure to explain this graph is not an indication of the secrity of the disease so it doesn't misinform people. 2) get good data that is actually good at indicating the severity of a disease. Mortality rate and transmission rate together are generally the two numbers that have some validity at this.
"No, I was just checking to see if you are as sharp as you propose yourself to be."
To summarize "anyone who doesnt agree with me is an idiot".
Yea sorry not even reading past this line then.. I spent the last 2 years as a COVID0-19 research scientist. Always a hoot when i see an arrogant uneducated twat strutting around like this, you are the porblem.
@jef We still record cause of deaths like we always have...
@Jedigirl If you live in america and arent homeless you are literally the top 1%.
I dont mind necceseraly putting up. But as long as I dont have to go into detail its on public record so shouldnt be a problem.
Two names that come to mind are Harel Hirshtik and Lew Bloch, both CEOs i've manage to get to hold accountable and fired them as well.
@davidfetter Dude I have 33K followers.. a LOT of posts slip by me or I forget. I apologize for not responding. I totally forgot about you asking.
I could legally mention their names, I'm just not sure if legally that would be troublesome. That said, you could easily find out by just looking at my website, see the companies I was a board member on and looking at their public data. Resolutions I've called ro firing CEO's or otherwise holding them accountable will not be hard to find attached to my record serving on public boards.
I can help point you to the relevant tools if you need help.
@nixCraft Thats not a job, thats a company asking you to be an investor.
Oh and by the way the "reverse appeal to authority" is called the Ad Hominem fallacy, in the general case. A more specific fallacy is called the Courtier's Reply Fallacy
I mean sure except I never said that. I never said if you were an expert or not, nor did I claim me being an expert makes you wrong. In fact quite the opposite, I pointed out you made a valid question that deserves an answer but I just dont have the energy to answer it for you/
I mean its a lot of effort your putting in to puts words in my mouth I never said. Which is just telling me not engaging you was probably the right move to be honest.
When did I use appeal to authority. I mentioned your question is valid but since my profession deals with educating the public daily I'm burnt out on the discussion. How did you twist that into an appeal to authority? Never asked you to just trust me
Because it's literally not a metric for infection severity. Your question is valid, but I'm just tired at this point explaining this stuff to non scientist just to have them argue from ignorance. Not saying your doing it per se. I just don't have the energy for this stuff.
> Obviously actually tracking infections is the only sensible way to track the progression of the pandemic.
You seemed to already have answered it.
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