Please read this well thought out thesis on the “panic”

[Beneficent]

https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19

and enjoy that years supply of spaghetti Os

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[TheValley91]

That's fine. This guy is mostly going after the content. But attacking the author isn't. Who he is or isn't is not relevant.

There's a name for this logical fallacy. It's called ad hominem.

So you dont care whether the article is valid, just that no one should discredit the author? I guess I'm lost on what exactly you are trying to make a point about.

 

[Daytontiger]

People on this board and in general have a real hard time separating opinions from facts. "Trump slowed this thing way down" is an opinion. "The media is trying to sabotage Trump" is an opinion. You may WANT them to be facts, but they are not.

Also, the reaction to this virus also goes to show how anti-education and intelligence this country has become. You people don't know more than the experts. I don't either. It goes for all of us that are not doctors or epidemiologists. You may think that you have a feeling that this won't be as bad as it looks. HOWEVER, we have lots and lots of people that not only have experience on working with previous pandemics, but also are working from data to try to model how this will look in the future. Those may not also be "facts" yet, but if you are asking me to depend on literally thousands of experts in the field to figure what our response will be and what it will look like without certain measures, or millions of "experts" who just "have a feeling" that this is "pretty much the flu", I can tell you which way I think we should go.

--Mr. DT

 

[Daytontiger]

Also, this article is far from "well-researched" when I read it. It was full of fallacious assumptions and contradictions and things that were designed to make him sound intelligent, but were actually opinions, and not facts. It's basically an opinion piece. If you want to treat it as such, great.

--Mr. DT

 

[Tiger1425]

I am getting a little tired of "Look, y'all. Read this." Hell, in this day and time anybody can write anything and put it on the web. I don't read any of this shit. Never will. It doesn't help. And I think it is funny that many of you still think that all the news is bent just to get Trump out of office. I can assure you that even if NONE of this had happened Biden is going to run a very strong campaign against Trump. And Trump knows it. Hillary Clinton was truly hated by many people in this country. Biden is not.

 

[TheValley91]

Yes, I do care whether the article is valid. And I want to see the points debated instead of attacking the author or just making comments based on a person's own bias.

Read my original post in this thread. I was commenting on the fact that the article/ideas should be attacked and to not commit a logical fallacy (ad hominem, in this case) because that is foolish and irrelevant.

Well the position that the person is maintaining, is being proven to be one with invalid points and is being held responsible for that.

 

[Tiger1425]

Is Biden still alive? Are you sure?

A dead Biden would make a better president than Donald Trump...