>> You weren't making excuses for NY when they were #2, back at the beginning.
No, I wasn't. That's a fact. Cuomo fucked that up royally. I think what he did was just stupid, and same with MI and NJ. My sister used to be a manager at a nursing home in MI, retired for some years. But she was familiar with the regulations and claimed the governor had no choice in the decisions she really screwed up on. But I feel differently, not being a leftist wackjob.
At any rate, I don't deny my views have changed over time; after all, we have more information. We thought at the time there was some science that said people should be six feet apart while waiting in line. Turned out, they essentially drew straws. It could have been 2' or 20'. They chose 6'. WTF.
My entire life I've believed in the Scientific Method, and it was simply abandoned at crush time when it was most needed.
We may be on the precipice of a treatment for Alzheimer's because someone didn't have his head up his ass and decided, "Damn, we've got all this data in EHR systems, why don't we use it?" After some simple regression analysis across 7 million patients, they determined that people who took Viagra had a 70% lower chance of developing Alzheimers. There is even some evidence it will help in rebuilding degenerated nerves. There is a really good chance that the most devastating illness, the one that was going to break the bank, can be controlled with a simple, harmless generic drug.
Someone could be doing that with treatments for Covid? Yeah, they could. |
