how concerned were they about H1N1?
It's too bad you tried to troll on this particular topic because I've been writing about Influenza for years, including on many occasions within the Cesspool.
The answer, of course, is extremely concerned — and diligent — about the severity of any seasonal mutation.
In fact, much more concerned than the scope of your unsurprisingly ignorant question. Because, of course, it's not just H1N1 that poses a pandemic threat.
The 1968 pandemic was H3N2. 1957's was H2N2.
Unfortunately we’ve had another pandemic spreading throughout our country for the last 20-30 years: distortion and willful ignorance. We’ve seen examples of it related to the science of climate change, vaccinations and GMOs.
Dr. Anthony Fauci: "One of the problems we face in the United States is that unfortunately, there is a combination of an anti-science bias that people are - for reasons that sometimes are, you know, inconceivable and not understandable - they just don't believe science and they don't believe authority."
https://www.sciencealert.com/fauci-is-worried-about-anti-science-bias-in-the-us-as-stay-at-home-orders-are-thwarted
When a vaccine becomes available for COVID-19, I’ll be watching to see if the anti-vaxxers hook up with the COVID hoaxers/contrarians to oppose vaccination programs at the local level.
Anti-Vaccine Activists Latch Onto Coronavirus To Bolster Their Movement
https://khn.org/news/anti-vaccine-activists-latch-onto-coronavirus-to-bolster-their-movement/
What an odd time to say something like:
“They don’t believe authority”
I know there are relatively small segments of people who are anti-science in certain ways. For instance I have creationist relatives who also believe/accept pretty much every other science.
That’s a lot different than someone who is actively anti-science across the spectrum and I don’t know any of those at all, nor have even really heard of any.
But I think there is a lot of suspect science being put forth as settled science right now regarding COVID-19 and a lot of people just aren’t buying it.
“Anti-science“ is just another term made up to shame people who don’t blindly toe the line or “listen to authority”
Much of scientific discovery can be manipulated and distorted like any other statistic. It’s not concrete and it can and often is subject to extreme bias.
The Warren Commission used science to sell Americans that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman in JFK’s assassination and the magic bullet theory.
I think it’s ok to question “authority” when your own eyes and ears tell you something completely different than the party line. I fear for a world when that no longer exists.
“What an odd time to say something like: 'They don’t believe authority'”
A few signs from the “anti-lockdown” protests:
- Give Me Liberty or Give Me Covid-19
- Defy Fascist Lockdown
- Fear the Govt, Not the Covid
- Fauci is a Fraud, Fake Models
- Vaccine Mandates Violate Bodily Autonomy
- US Classifies Vaccines and Unavoidably Unsafe
- We Do Not Consent of Tyranny of Forced Vaccines
- Truth Is Learned Not Told, Do Your Own Research
- This Is Not Nazi Germany: No Testing, No Tracing, No Tracking, No Snitching, No Mask
“But I think there is a lot of suspect science being put forth as settled science right now regarding COVID-19 and a lot of people just aren’t buying it.”
I think most scientists would say there are still many unknowns about the virus. That’s why they "shy away" from predictions and instead provide “scenarios.” For example, the CDC COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios document "gave a wide range of numerical estimates for the contagiousness and lethality of covid-19." The guidance included a cautionary preamble: “Information about [covid-19’s] biological and epidemiological characteristics remain limited, and uncertainty remains around nearly all parameter values.”
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