How have immunologists done badly?
well then maybe you weren’t paying attention at the time. people in the field, some very prominent, very persuasive and influential people, were basically insisting that because this ahd a rate rate of mutation much slower than the flu, mutations were not really a concern
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there were individual exceptions, but there was an epistemic lag of like 8-9 months on key issues, like presymptomatic spread, airborne spread, and mutation. this slow response has ossified into policy, too
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Remaining agnostic/uncertain on those issues until there is evidence makes sense as science. For policy, if you're not sure if there is presymptomatic/airborne spread, you should *act* as though there is. That's the major failing of the pandemic: bad cost/benefit and decisions.
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Could you name these people? Then perhaps we can establish if they’re epidemiologists, virologists, geneticists etc. and see if they did represent mainstream views in their field.
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i don’t want to call them out by name but one rhymes with hassmussen
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