Iām going to christen this type of Logic āthe Sid Jumpā. Intentional extrapolation of someoneās point in the completely wrong manner. Wilfully maximising misunderstanding.
Iām stupid for answering butā¦Antigen tests wonāt by themselves make cases go down but are an incredibly useful tool to keep case levels as low as possible.
But they arenāt keeping case levels as low as possible.
Because too much faith has been placed in them, as Professor Ricciardi rightly pointed out.
They may have a role as part of a wide suite of measures, but that is not the way they are being used.
They have been used to justify opening fully.
But opening fully at this level of vaccination, and as we go into winter, is folly.
Itās like contact tracing, contact tracing has a role if it is used as part of a wide suite of measures. But when cases go above a certain level, it effectively becomes useless, because the whole thing snowballs.
I havenāt misrepresented anybody.
People here just donāt like being called out on their bullshit. They find it very confronting. After a year of a circle jerk echo chamber on this forum between April 2020 and April 2021, where āitās all a codā gammonology and deluded āCorona centrismā was allowed to run rife, itās hardly surprising.
Is there any vaccine that works poorly as the covid vaccine ?
Youād wonder if they never called it a vaccine from the start and instead maybe called it a preventive measure or something would people be more willing to take it.
This is so demonstrably wrong itās hilarious. TFK has a whole range of loons on either side and a heap of people all over the middle. We have plenty of Anti-vaxxers and a few ālock it down and throw away the keyā types like yourself. Then thereās fellas in the middle too. Plenty look in and get back out as quick. Or lads like myself who generally stay out of it but chime in every now and then. Iād class myself as somewhere in the middle, what you patronising call ādeluded Corona centristsā.
A wide spread of opinions so, not an echo chamber (,despite the propensity for discussions to circleā¦)
Thatās your impression and youāre entitled to it. I believe itās a wrong impression. My impression is that the āitās all a codā conspiraloons basically ran riot here for a year without much pushback.
Although I donāt think this forum is unique in that. A quick look at the Boards.ie Covid forum shows that place is even worse.
But āCorona centrismā is nearly more insidious because it pretends to be āmatureā and ābalancedā but still labours under delusions of cutting corners to attain 2019 normality. Itās like centrism in general, it thinks everything would be alright if we just made some token changes.
My view is that this forum has contained little enough in the way of cold, hard realism, at least until I started posting here again.