re: CDC now says coronavirus 'does not spread easily' via contaminated surfaces

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but better information being used doesn't negate all information from that source or make the change inherently malicious.

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It is all aboot he boy who cried wolf. Spreading BS as fact and having billions of people affected by it steals all credibility.

If I tell You "OK, Susy-Q. you have breast cancer" and we act on it by removing it, we all feel good. Now, next week the labs come back and Whoops! You were healthy. Now repeat this repeatedly, then explain to me why you would trust me to be your Dr.

My new info may say that you have high blood pressure and need to take a daily pill. Are you skeptical?

Are you now able to understand why everybody gives them the stink eye when they, yet again, turn 180 on something?

A month ago the claim was that the virus could live on a cellphone for a week-and-a-half. I can't keep up with all the claims and backpedaling that has gone on with this. The "experts" were clueless in the beginning of this and they made wild claims to support the draconian measures that were taken. When we revisit this I think there are going to be a lot of questions that need to be answered so this never happens again.

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A month ago the claim was that the virus could live on a cellphone for a week-and-a-half

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Three months ago every democratic politician in DC and many democratic governors and mayors were calling trump a racist for his travel ban and encouraging people to eat at Chinese restaurants and hug Chinese people and travel to China.

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the CDC is just ignoring it to stick it their political favorite.

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Robert R. Redfield, current Director of the CDC

"He was nominated for the post by President Donald Trump, after the President's first appointee resigned in scandal. His nomination was considered controversial, and was opposed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which cited Redfield's lack of experience administering a public health agency, his history of scientific misconduct, and his religious advocacy in response to a public health crisis."

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I think more bad analogies and condescension miiight help me understand

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OK. If you are blindfolded and I tell you that you are getting a slice of the best Key lime ever, then shove a huge fork full of pecan pie in your face, wouldn't the initial shock value make you twinge just a little?

Well, Puddinhead... Wouldn't it?

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Don’t act on incomplete data but do go by a single model?

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Is this real life? The diamond princess data wasn’t a model. It was actual comprehensive data from a contained environment where the virus spread uninhibited for multiple days before anything was done. It is seemingly still the most complete data set that is available from this, outside of perhaps the naval vessels that did extensive testing and yielded very similar results.

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Even though at that point we were still learning not only how infectious it is,

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I see you’re just another one of those people that have chosen to completely ignore the Diamond princess data, despite the fact that it’s proving to be more and more accurate to how covid is playing out in the real world as the “experts” continue “revising their models as more data becomes available”

The Diamond princess data yielded a 17% infection rate amongst all of 3000+ passengers and crew on the ship. These people were all breathing the same recycled air, throughout the ship, touching the same surfaces, interacting in close proximity with each other, etc. for days before a problem was realized.

17%. We knew plenty about how infectious it was on March 9. You and the vast majority of people, especially decision makers, just chose to ignore it for whatever reason.

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but changing guidelines as new info becomes available is appropriate.

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Once again, when draconian measures that ruin tens of millions of lives are implemented based on extreme outlier models that are created based on incomplete data, this excuse is no longer valid. There are 30+ million unemployed people, untold numbers that have had “elective” medical procedures postponed indefinitely that will have significant negative consequences on their health, and plenty of other people severely impacted by your “guidelines can change with more data” nonsense that would agree with me.

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scaring people causes viewership.

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