# Pitting SayTwo

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-saytwo/924070>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 27, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-saytwo/924070 "2020-10-27T23:06:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-saytwo/924070/161 "2020-12-31T14:26:37Z")

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> [@Tfletch1](#):
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> If he’s a paid troll. Otherwise, he’s just an amateur. With the volume of crap he’s spewing, he’s either unemployed or his job is paying him while he goofs around on the internets. He might have to live in mom’s basement if he gets fired.

He is clearly a dunderhead that believes that he is clever by concluding that safety valves are stupid.

> [@Am I missing something here? (re: reopening of bars, etc... now)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-here-re-reopening-of-bars-etc-now/922356/1099):
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> Spin data? They are using some kind of formula that counts virus patients as more than one patient, and you think it’s someone _else_ who is spinning data? After their formula counts unused beds as used and the press runs with stories that they say they are out of beds?
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> I think all anyone wants to know is whether what they say, when ‘they’ say that the place is out of beds, means people will now get turned away. Not some output of their formula.

One can get more from a system that way, but only for a while, eventually he is is like the fireman that had his engine blew on his face.

> [@Am I missing something here? (re: reopening of bars, etc... now)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-here-re-reopening-of-bars-etc-now/922356/1100):
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> [What you demand is that we all should behave like the rookie firemen of the steam era that did not like the hissing or noise coming from engine safety valves, some did ignore the instructions about why closing the valve was not a good idea.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Friend_of_Charleston)
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> I rather listen to the experts on the field rather than an elected dunderhead that was put there by laymen. People that ignore safety valves could make something work for awhile but eventually the few that advice that usually will get the system to blow up in their faces.

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