Speyside wrote:I promised myself I was going to remove my anger from this and do my best to not be political. I will try to answer what questions I can.
What we do know is autoimmune disease is devastating. We do not know enough about the COVID 19 autoimmune diseases to know how devastating they will be. We do know that known autoimmune diseases are lifelong illnesses once you have them and they eventually kill you in a gruesome manner.
The initial reaction did not take into account the massive devastation a shutdown would cause. Doing nothing was and is totally unacceptable, but a well planned measured response would have been far better.
Honesty is being used with what is known in the scientific community, but not nearly enough is known. Every day new information seems to happen, often rendering old information either incorrect, or incomplete. Incomplete is more common.
I have done my best to answer what I felt I could answer knowledgeably.
OK, so we...
1) Knowingly made decisions (some would call rash decisions) based on incomplete and incorrect data.
2) We continue to do so even though we still have incomplete and incorrect data.
3) We stay the course and even predict the future based on incomplete and incorrect data.
4) We don't admit it because they are professionals and they know stuff and everything so they are above questioning.
Seems kinda like a case malpractice by prescribing a treatment plan without having any real understanding of the data to base it on. So without knowing what is going on, we just do something so it looks like we know what we are doing on.
Then we add this to the cluster F: Those who breathe a word contrary what the prescribed "correct" path are blasted as being ignorant buffoons. This whole thing seems to fit into a category of groupthink don'cha think?
groupthink
n. a strong concurrence-seeking tendency that interferes with effective group decision making. Symptoms include apparent unanimity, illusions of invulnerability and moral correctness, biased perceptions of the outgroup, interpersonal pressure, self-censorship, and defective decision-making strategies. Causes are thought to include group cohesion and isolation, poor leadership, and the stress involved in making decisions. [identified by Irving L. Janis]
https://dictionary.apa.org/groupthinkAlso note: None of my posts on this topic referenced anything about politics. Any injections of politics did not come from me.