So, partly the problem is stupidity, right? There’s a hijack of the Astra Zeneca in the US thread happening based on an apparent total failure to understand that safety decisions about vaccines, and how it is determined that something is a side effect of a vaccine, is by statistical analysis of the data. He seems to think the way it should be determined is by just examining people. Like you can only tell if a clot was caused by the vaccine by examining the patient.
It seems pointless to keep trying to explain. I hope people stop trying. (I’m done trying.)
Yeah, when I saw those posts by him, I just rolled my eyes and moved on. That’s some high-quality idiocy right there, with no engagement with the really excellent other posts in that thread.
I’ve tried to find whether someone’s ever given an alternative solution to what Cuomo did? I can’t find it anywhere. Hospitals were overrun. So, do they just pile them up in a truck out back and let them die?
I think we’re into “the coverup is worse than the crime” territory. He would have taken a hit announcing “things are really fucked, this bad option is the best one I see”, but long-term he probably would have been better off (until the assault allegations started surfacing).
No question. The right has been pushing the nursing home story since at least the summer, and it didn’t make a dent in his reputation. Once it turned out he lied about how many nursing home deaths there were, probably to protect his book prospects, things started going south.
Magiver did!
It involved round the clock helicopter evacuation of the, formerly, infected to hospitals all over the tri-state area. Sadly, he didn’t get to detail his full Covid plan with it’s paratroop doctors on mini-motorcycles and the air dropping of thousands of gallons of hand sanitizer on NY.
(Come to think of it, all of Magiver’s brilliant solutions seem to involve aircraft . . . I wonder why…)
Exactly. The only thing I could think of is if the Feds moved in quickly to help. They eventually parked a battleship in port but had so many restrictions that it really didn’t help.
Yes, because that’ll keep Covid contained. BTW, I got this dude on ignore because he gunked-up the covid threads. Looks like he’s over there again too. I have no idea what the conversation is anymore because 1) I have him on ignore and 2) I lose interest in threads where people have to explain basics to @SayTwo wannabe’s over and over again.
On 21 April, Governor Cuomo told President Trump that the ship was no longer needed in New York. It departed on 30 April, having treated 179 patients.[34] So, it was about as useful as a battleship would have been.
No way is either Scylla. He fancied himself a funny story teller, and for some reason a lot of Dopers believed, or pretended to believe, them. The worst one was when he said he waterboarded himself to see if it was torture.
More people should take this advice. Best option is to not engage him at all but, the Dope being the Dope, that is never going to happen.
If that also alludes to his far-right chicken fucking - got it. If not, then, yeah - his storytelling side I couldn’t give one whit about (and completely irrelevant to my beef) - it’s the IMO Magiver-like doublng down on too much water-carrying for Trump & co. is what I was focussing on.
I’m personally trying to maintain a distinction between debunking and engaging. I do think it’s sometimes useful to explain things, even if I don’t think the poster I’m replying to will get it.
With trolls, I also do a thing where I start talking about them but not to them. It seems to accomplish my desired goal fairly often. I don’t use this strategy here outside the Pit, though.
Yeah, if I think it will still be useful to other people, I will still explain/debunk. What I was talking about in that quote was just so nonsensical that I didn’t think there was any danger that other people would need any further explanation of why it was bunk.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to make your quote say something you didn’t intend. I really think the debunk thing is overdone also. Once one person shows the other person was wrong, it does no good for 47 other people to chime in and say the same thing. As for debunking it for other people, I don’t think it’s necessary for most things, the vast majority of Dopers are pretty much on the same page on major issues.
Debunking is engaging. You are not going to convince someone like Magiver that he is wrong on something. It’s just not going to happen. Way too many people here tried for 20 years to get regards or paper towel guy, or now, many armed guy guy to admit error. Never happened, did it?
You missed my point. What I’m calling a debunking is when I explain why something is wrong with no intention of the other person listening to me. I know they won’t listen, but that’s not why I’m posting.
I know some people find it silly, but I actually joined this board for the “fighting ignorance” slogan. I at one point wanted to be a teacher. I love to learn, and I love to tell others what I’ve learned.
I do expect some people are too stubborn to listen. But I hope there are others who at least consider what I say. And, hey, if they can prove me wrong, that’s even better, as it means I learned something new.