It looks like many posters have got R2D2 on ignore.
I'm glad I never bothered wasting my time going to university.One of the thing you learn when you go to University is the skill of separating facts from fiction, or at least, state your source, and more importantly, state a legit source.
It is the cornerstone to Essay writing. Everyone can have an opinion, that is perfectly fine but you can't just state something without backing up your claim, even if you think it's obvious. Say in the essay you say "The Sky is Blue". You better have an * and link to a footnote and explain that the sky is blue due to the particles as light travels through the atmosphere and explained by X Paper, in Y Date by Z Author. Or if you put that "stealing is illegal", you need to state the chapter and verse on which legislation it comes out of, and the case law gives the definition on what constitute as stealing. What you don't do is link to obscure sources, you learn to filter out and realise what is bad sources and what is legit. Even Wikipedia is not a good source, because it is user editable meaning it is prone to errors.
You can see someone without this skill coming a mile off, it is more than likely they never had a university education, it doesn't really matter what degree they took, it doesn't need to be science, because the standard of referencing is pretty much the same across the board. When someone never gone through that, they never learn to have that filter in their head. They think questioning everything is the way to go. They think questioning legit sources is even better idea. There is an distinct lack of separation on what is legit or not. Their questioning isn't the problem, their lack of skill on filtering is.
Can you imagine, like @andya700 's wife, spent years in school, worked hard, good grades, get into university, got a job, doing research, basically what she is good at (Excellent at, 100% guarantee better than all of us at it), and then someone somewhere online who has never picked up a book on the subject goes on Twitter, Facebook and forums disputing all of their lifetime of work base on something they read from another Twitter feed. No reasonable man would ever do the latter.
One extreme example was when Clinton was running for the 2016 Election and there was this Pizzagate, it was claimed by some CT nut that she ran an underground paedephile ring out of the basement of a pizza parlour in Washington DC. It went around the Far Right channels like wild fire. Now a normal reasonable person would look at that and think it's absurd. (I bet some of you think it is possible, even 1%).
Well, someone believed it enough to pick up an assault rifle and went and "attack" the Pizza Parlour, shot at the premises, it turns out, obviously, there was no children locked up in the basement, in fact the building doesn't even have a basement.
Gunman in ‘Pizzagate’ Shooting Is Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison (Published 2017)
The man, Edgar Maddison Welch, fired a gun inside the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in December after reading fake stories about a child abuse scheme led by Hillary Clinton.www.nytimes.com
And there are people addicted through prescribed drugs.
Oh, really. You think some fruit images is a contribution? And a comment about ignoring is personal?............how very odd; I can see replies to my post - maybe it's you who should take the people who have replied with sensible answers off ignore?
On the other hand that might mean you make a contribution to the thread rather than making personal comments about a forum member & providing nothing useful towards the discussion.
Just to simplify it a little:
An Orange:
An Apple:
Completely pointless trying to compare them:
Coronavirus: country comparisons are pointless unless we account for these biases in testing
We need to update models on death rates or introduce truly random testing to understand the true impact of the coronavirus.theconversation.com
On the other hand that might mean you make a contribution to the thread rather than making personal comments about a forum member & providing nothing useful towards the discussion.
Indeed you simplyfy it to your own ends, however it is well established in the realms of science and looking at the evidence bases between one action or inaction and another eg one country and another, that in fact you can (if you have the right skills) indeed compare apples and oranges, but I don't think you'd get that.
I don't actually remember the last time you practiced what you are preaching. Does anyone else?
You may have been better using an orange and a cucumber....or an apple and a carrot....Just to simplify it a little:
An Orange:
An Apple:
Completely pointless trying to compare them:
Coronavirus: country comparisons are pointless unless we account for these biases in testing
We need to update models on death rates or introduce truly random testing to understand the true impact of the coronavirus.
You may have been better using an orange and a cucumber....or an apple and a carrot....
And a cucumber
You can be obese without burgers, overeating is not always a choice. Alkoholism is not about the first drink is a decease and even is you manage to stop drinking youre still an alcoholic. Yes you can get over it but people are different so one experience does not necessary apply to other people
And a cucumber
Don't eat too much or else you won't get any NHS care.I've just opened another packet
Way more experience of what’s going on and what’s needed to end this nightmare than the likes of you old bean.
When fellow man stops wanting everything handed to them on a plate and starts to take responsibility for there own actions maybe there will be less need for the stick and more willingness to give them a carrot or two!
When fellow man stops wanting everything handed to them on a plate and starts to take responsibility for there own actions maybe there will be less need for the stick and more willingness to give them a carrot or two!
Oh dear!
I've just opened another packet
Put that popcorn away! I could try and make a cohesive and likely passionate reply to him but I recognise the levels of ignorance/stupidity/trumpism* (*your choice) and I recognise that these entrenched "I'm right, you're wrong" zealots simply cannot be reasoned with.
Yes agree although I believe that vaccines are a good thing and trust doctors and people who develop them things like that have to be voluntary
I am heeere to make a yuuge announcement
My Warp speed project have created a Neeew great Vagssiene
Its Great its yuuuge
You Know nobody knows more about vassines than me.....maybe in the intire world
Fauci said so himself
and its the best vagssiene ever. No other vagssiene is as good
And nobody knew this
the others vagssienes were 90% effective and 95% effective........ this one is 112% effective
incredible dont you think
I'm not suggesting we should have mandatory vaccines, but if we don't get a high level of voluntary uptake in the population, then anyone who can't be vaccinated effectively, for whatever reason, will still be vulnerable. The vaccine might not work well in the oldest age groups, and there will be people with immune deficiences who won't be protected. If the vaccine prevents infection and not just disease, then we can hope to achieve herd immunity (in a safe way) to protect these vulnerable groups.
That would Work if you had few infected within society but with the virus widely sprede through All layers the few traweller contributions wouldnt change much.
