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Doc Sportello

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41. So much wrong here

Wed Apr 27, 2022, 05:57 PM

Apr 2022

It's hard to know where to start. You were making claims about long-term that you didn't back up with any data, yet somehow claim I made your point. Lame deflection. And you do the same with your last sentence: you saying that 10 percent medically is common doesn't make it so, while totally ignoring the fact that the article you cited used the term "might" - which means a possibility, NOT A FACT as you claimed. Sam with the use of a double negative in saying "suggests this is not an innocuous disease". Suggests is not fact. No one said it is harmless.

What is being argued here is that it's time to view the overall statistics about Covid, and that arguing to go back to shutdowns and mask requirements in 2022 is not based on the science. Your pronouncements about measures to be taken are fine, but unrealistic and not justified by the science, no matter how much you wish it to be so. We should be thrilled by what has been done in fighting Covid, not trying to go back to 2020.

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