COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)
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ALonelyDad
Veteran
Now we have fires in Chernobyl, those trees probably releasing decades worth of radiation
AlwaysLurkin
Superstar
I got a dry cough out the blue..hopefully its from smoking 
Lakerman0834
Veteran
This has been known since god knows when. Anyone with an ounce of medical knowledge knows hcq prolongs qtc
Knucklehead
HMFIC
The chloroquine arguments all over the internet between people with zero relevant expertise citing studies they don’t understand and aren’t qualified to have any opinion on whatsoever all in aim of backing up or discrediting a certain man who also has no pertinent knowledge is humans reaching peak stupidity.
philmonroe
Superstar
You’re just another cat talking crazy online that the Reebok makes change their tune offfline so get your daps.shut your child mouth. and yes go kill yourself because you that nikka spreading the virus and killing my folks. go catch yourself this flu and see how it feels already bytch.
Regardless of this whole debate, the bolded is exactly the kind of elitist attitude that is the academic world's part in inducing an atmosphere of anti-intellectualism. Doctors and others in the medical field are especially prone to this type of elitism. One does not need qualifications to have an opinion. One needs to have good reasons and evidence.
They are offended that they are fact-checked by 'common' people because they get a large part of their self-worth (and their sense of entitlement to a high salary) from their belief that they are the smartest people in the world because they have to deal with a lot of ignorant people with strong opinions at their work on a daily basis.
But the reality is often very different. And we should be more critical towards their claims and force them to actually defend them and back them up with evidence rather than relying on their 'authority' and 'expertise'. A lot of 'experts' have been contradicting each other and a lot of them have pushed a lot of unsubstantiated claims, making the pandemic worse than it needed to be. Plus more people die from medical errors every year than from the flu and from projected corona numbers combined but this is an embarrassing fact that doctors don't like people to dwell on. A little more humility on their part could prevent a lot of problems.
Cases are now really slowing down everywhere. I expect by the end of the month, the lockdown will be over and by June everything will be back to normal again. Phew
Rockets over Bucks in 6
Knucklehead
HMFIC
People with no expertise arguing about chloroquine would be exactly like someone who had never listened to one song reading the Wikipedia page for Hip-Hop and then angrily interrupting RZA and Preemo and insisting that they knew far more about production than they did.
spencerforhire
All Star
Cases are now really slowing down everywhere. I expect by the end of the month, the lockdown will be over and by June everything will be back to normal again. Phew
except in California quarantine doesnt end until May 15th or maybe even longer.
ALonelyDad
Veteran
I would make it entire summer just to be perfectly safe or a very slow roll out
And I'm sure a young Kanye or whoever before he was famous was telling people he knew better what the new cool sound of his generation should be but was laughed away because he was a nobody.
The point is, if you really do have expertise, you should prove it with arguments and evidence. Not by saying, we should do what I say because I am a doctor and you are not. The best arguments and evidence should always win out, and while in an exam room there is no time for an in-depth debate and people should put some trust in the qualifications of the doctor, in an unprecedented situation in which relevant knowledge is as of yet contested people online don't need qualifications but arguments and references.
And what we especially need is for experts to stop competing for audience among the uneducated, battling for who can come off as the most authoritative. We need publically broadcasted in-depth discussions between experts with differing opinions who are forced to explain their positions and to back them up with references to reliable data.
LeVraiPapi
Redemption is Coming
Lets listen to @satam55 and his alt right journalists instead.
Why do people choose to be so dumb? I will never get it.