WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal

Re:WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal by SV_BubbleTime on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:12PM (#23978116)

> We can't possibly have enough data, and even enough time since the start of the pandemic to come to this conclusion.

For, Pro, Against, Anti, WHO, CDC, vaccine, masks, orders... etc etc etc... I’ve been thinking this same thing since March. I’m absolutely fine being cautious and doing the right thing, but I think everyone pretends “the science is settled” on these things and it changes weekly - and it should because a lot of it is new - but now that’s used as a weapon by everyone invoked. Kinda sick of it.

It should be totally OK to say “we don’t know, so we won’t guess”.

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Re:WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal by iso1631 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:28PM (#23978348)

We don't know, we won't guess, but we have to have a policy, and that policy is based on what we do know. If what we do know changes, we change the policy.

The problem with that is that policy changing every week is not something that western populations can deal with, so policy changes have to be dampened somewhat.

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Re:WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal by SV_BubbleTime on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:39PM (#23978496)

I don’t think I necessarily disagreed with that.

The WHO saying it’s one big wave, is a guess though.

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