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A university president makes a case against cowardice

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451 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 12:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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CaptWillard[dead post] ◴[03 Apr 25 13:26 UTC] No.43569290[source]▶
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sixothree ◴[03 Apr 25 13:31 UTC] No.43569352[source]▶
Are you referring to the most studied medicine in human history or the one that saved more lives than any other medicine in human history?
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CaptWillard ◴[03 Apr 25 13:46 UTC] No.43569571[source]▶
I'm referring to the medicine deployed against a pandemic whose death count is still entirely unknown.

How many people died because of COVID?

You don't know. No one knows.

Meanwhile, everyone who knows better pretends that the most fundamental data about the subject, on top of which all other data and decsions were built ... is garbage.

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1. hobs ◴[03 Apr 25 13:52 UTC] No.43569665[source]▶
Ah yes, because we don't have the exact numbers your appeal to idiocy must be normalized.

Do you know how many people are saved by antibiotics RIGHT NOW? You don't know?! NO ONE KNOWS!

Give me a break, we don't need to dissect every corpse to see how effective the vaccine is.