Before we rush to hangout in huge crowds....
Looks like Stanford fudged the figures on the "no worries, it's less infectious and deadly than we thought" study...:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05...ts-accused-of-hyping-covid-19-antibody-study/
Letting partisan Politics overcome Common Sense and good science might eventually be the death of all of us... (not from COVID19 but something else in the future)...
And before I'm ripped for being some left wing Pollyanna, I can assure you all that I'm not.
Here's another article on the same topic:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...-antibody-studies.html?ico=amp_articleRelated
Well, I'm a primarily liberal fellow(NOT a Democrat, mind you)who is in favor of reopening, because--we have to, but a lot of my friends, relatives, etc. who are mostly lefties, scoff, & doubt the improving #'s, & they regularly raise the possibility of the improving #'s being "fudged", but it's not that easy to do that. Last week it was Georgia--I pointed out the decrease in new cases despite having been reopened for nearly a month, & they counter with, "I read the #'s are being fudged, I don't trust them!". I responded by educating them how the reporting process works in most states: Each district or county sends in their daily #'s from their medical facilities, & the state totals these figures & reports them. In Georgia, Atlanta is by far the largest contributor in terms of #'s, & by by far the most liberal district in Georgia(Athens too). If someone at the state were to attempt to alter the reported #'s, it would be called out INSTANTLY! Medical professionals go over these reports with a fine tooth comb, & if any discrepancies existed, believe you me they would be called out. In this information age & with the presence of social media, it is very difficult to get away with any such deceptions on this large of a scale. I've been disappointed to see the left wing media, CNN particularly, behave in the manner they have during this pandemic. They have fully immersed themselves into this ridiculous reporting "competition" with right wing media. Instead of offering unbiased, balanced information, they skew, shape, & basically only report figures that support their narrative of, "we reopened too soon!"(which I didn't necessarily disagree with initially, but that is IRRELEVANT now. The reality is, we are reopening, & the responsible thing to do would be to educate people on how to do so safely, & effectively. Not to continue to try to convince people that we shouldn't have done it in the 1st place--that is a useless endeavor at this point) In the last week, I've seen them report North Carolina, & Texas, as having their highest single day increase in reported Covid 10 cases, whiile on the same day, 6 & 7 states, respectively, had their largest single day DECREASES of covid cases, but of course, nary a mention of those states.That's but 1 of many, many, many examples of the partisan coverage of this pandemic, & I could go on all day with examples of how the coverage is slanted, deceptively so, in the direction the networks wish the public to view the outbreak, & the liberal population seems to be buying the left wing narrative hook line & sinker, & therefore they are uninformed, on a scale that I've never seen in the LW before.(this has always & forever applied to the RW media & RW population, just too get that fact established) I agree that we cannot let "partisan politics overcome common sense & good science", but that absolutely goes both ways during this pandemic, & a LOT of people are tragically unaware of that FACT. A lot as in, MOST people, from what I see, hear, read, & ENDURE on a daily basis. BBC America offers the primarily unbiased coverage of our pandemic, but unfortunately, it's not particularly in depth.