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deregulateMed·

Don't trust humans. Wait for scientific studies and replication.

This is the scientific method.

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When was the last time you saw a study actually replicated and not just "peer reviewed" and referenced?

This is COVID, not some rat behavior study. It will be replicated.

Slide into the DMs when that happens

I would also be suspect of any Biotech company announcing a "need" for more/variation product of theirs.

But yes. Allow consensus to build before jumping to conclusions when we don't have a time pressure on that front.

Right, but in the case of a vaccine, you wait, you die.

Not if you're under 60 and not obese

Tell that to my old colleague in Brazil, dead at 38 from COVID. Or to one of my first co-workers, back in 2005, dead last year at 45.

None of them obese, the 45 years old guy was running half-marathons.

Please, don't say this kind of shit, it hurts people like me who don't fit your fake narrative for no good reason.

What was their comorbidity?

I’m sorry you lost a couple of colleagues too young. But statistical anomalies need to be notated as such. I don’t warn people not to golf due to the risk of lightning strike

I don't need to tell it to you. I and everyone I know have gotten covid and are doing fine. Covid is not the bubonic plague. Its not even the Spanish flu. The data show that already.

Maybe I know a lot more people than you, but my mother's therapist, my dentist, and a coworker's father died from COVID. The great majority of cases don't die, but given it's extremely contagious, it makes up for it with numbers.

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