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   >> predominant narrative during Covid that shuttering schools and   
   >> businesses was lifesaving. (William DeShazer for The Free Press)   
   >> Opening the data to the public could help extremists misrepresent data   
   >> and take it out of context, but the benefits outweigh the risks, said   
   >> Krohnert. “Blocking access to data is not going to prevent bad actors   
   >>from spreading misinformation. If anything, it adds fuel to the fire,   
   >> because they can make up what they want and claim it’s from some study   
   >> the government ‘doesn’t want you to see,’?” she said.   
   >>   
   >> Other hoped-for reforms go far beyond data reporting. It’s about what   
   >> gets studied to begin with. During the pandemic, policy decisions with   
   >> enormous effects, such as universal masking or standing six feet apart,   
   >> we now know were based on flawed research, or often just guesswork. But   
   >> according to Hart, the federal health agencies resisted funding studies   
   >> that might refute CDC recommendations.   
   >>   
   >> Then there is the matter of institutional conflicts of interest. For   
   >> example, Hart was dismayed to learn that the same people who sit on NIH   
   >> grant committees to decide where funding goes also make policy   
   >> recommendations.   
   >>   
   >> Such conflicts are a problem. After watching the CDC make so many   
   >> errors—and always in the same direction—Krohnert co-wrote a paper for   
   >> the open-access Social Science Research Network, with Dr. Vinay Prasad,   
   >> the new head of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics   
   >> Evaluation and Research, calling for a firewall between the government   
   >> entities that gather statistics and those setting policy as a shield   
   >> against “real or perceived systematic bias.”   
   >>   
   >> Krohnert also thinks there need to be better conversations about the   
   >> nature and efficacy of CDC recommendations, which can be overly cautious   
   >> and reflect a low tolerance for risk, such as its recommendation not to   
   >> eat raw cookie dough. As a result, the general public often ignores the   
   >> CDC’s advice.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> “Blocking access to data is not going to prevent bad actors from   
   >> spreading misinformation,” Krohnert said. “If anything, it adds fuel to   
   >> the fire.” (Kendrick Brinson for The Free Press)   
   >> Since their recommendations can take on the force of law, official   
   >> recommendations by the CDC ought to include room for dissent—or at least   
   >> some wiggle room, depending on the circumstances, Krohnert said. For   
   >> example, a recommendation to wear masks to prevent the spread of disease   
   >> might come with a qualification that it might not be appropriate in   
   >> every situation, so that pediatric speech-therapy clinics and preschools   
   >> needn’t worry about getting sued for failing to follow the agency’s   
   advice.   
   >>   
   >> And though they do want sweeping reform, Team Reality don’t want to burn   
   >> the house down completely. Krohnert said she doesn’t want to render the   
   >> CDC useless. Just the opposite. She believes that Americans need   
   >> entities they can trust, though government power usually should be   
   >> limited to the ability to recommend and not compel.   
   >>   
   >> “Public-health enforcing isolation of very sick, very contagious people   
   >> is not particularly controversial,” she said. “But during Covid, we had   
   >> public-health enforcing quarantine of healthy individuals.   
   >>   
   >> “We just seemed to skip over all the ethics of that.”   
   >>   
   >> There is, understandably, some concern that, as the editors of The Free   
   >> Press wrote yesterday in an editorial about public health, “this   
   >> administration’s approach to reform often uses a hacksaw when a scalpel   
   >> is called for.” And yet, the people Trump has selected to lead the NIH,   
   >> CDC, and FDA are highly credentialed, well-respected, and extremely   
   >> competent, and they are advocating policies that are as careful as they   
   >> are radical. “These aren’t Robespierre lieutenants being elevated to   
   >> judge, jury, and executioner when the revolution was won,” said Hart.   
   >> “These are the people who should’ve been running things in the first   
   place.”   
   >   
   > In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of   
   > GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's   
   > secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps   
   > us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne   
   > pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being   
   > 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**   
   > appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).   
   >   
   > Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the   
   > COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by   
   > rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given   
   > moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly   
   > contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to   
   > "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and   
   > self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.   
   > Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case   
   > scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,   
   > Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations   
   > combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"   
   > that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no   
   > longer effective.   
   >   
   > Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (   
   > https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ   
   > ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.   
   >   
   > So how are you ?   
   >   
       I am wonderfully hungry!   
      
      
     Michael   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)