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In industrial engineering/quality control there is a concept called Alpha Errors vs Beta Errors.

Alpha errors is when you make a mistake that prevents something good from happening.

Beta Errors is when you make a mistake by allowing something bad to happen.

Alpha Errors > Beta Errors.

That’s basically the entire approach to the pandemic until we started to learn more and understand more about it.

You can’t judge people now looking back.

They were working on at the Alpha, you skipped alpha and went and risked a beta error.

You both are not the same.

Jeff Swann 2y ago

Nah, it was obviously a scam from the start, & being outside is always better for health than being cooped up inside. There was no real risk.

A lot of people just stopped thinking. Some really feared the virus, but most feared social reprecussions & feared seeing the implications of their govt lying to them.

Facing the fact that you are being lied to by the biggest & most powerful organization you know of is actually the scariest thing for a lot of people. They will go along with a lot of irrationality to avoid facing that sort of fear. The govt is their protector & their God, realizing it's evil destroys everything about their view of the world including their idea of the sort of person they are.

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TKay 2y ago

As I said. Both are errors.

Jeff Swann 2y ago

It's not an error when someone could see what was going on & then was proven absolutely right. That's the opposite of making an error actually.

This is that same shit that the Dilbert asshole did, you don't get to pretend you weren't wrong by saying "no one could have known." Many of us knew. Fix your model of the world so that you will know next time too.

Truth & understanding are discovered when people are free to discover them (when they can ask questions & do what they think is right). The sort of people who want to destroy that freedom (censor people & keep them trapped & force them all down the same path) are always the sort of people that are wrong & don't want to be found out. Stop trusting & listening to those people.

burns 2y ago

When you understand incentives, realize that power corrupts, and that you can only fully trust yourself, you see things for what they are. Unfortunately most people are still too trusting and prefer to delegate responsibility and thinking too others.

HomelessG 2y ago

So the people who lost loved ones and acted based on that very real situation are burying their head in the sand? You act as if people weren’t dying

TKay 2y ago

Well my dad, rest his soul in peace disagrees with you.

Jeff Swann 2y ago

Idk what the circumstances were, but I know that hospital treatments were killing people. Remdesivir was previously discontinued for causing kidney failure & it was the primary Covid treatment. I have a nurse friend who just stopped putting it in her IVs & all of her patients stopped dying.

Doctors were getting paid to prescribe it, & hospitals were getting paid when patients died.

TKay 2y ago

Exactly. That’s why it was better not to get to the point where anyone needed a Hospital. But many didn’t share the concern.

And you are assuming he was in the US. He didn’t have the luxury of the American health care. Things were way worse where he lived.

Anyway. I don’t like to look back at those times. It brings back so much hurt and anger. Everyone made their choices and here we are now.

Jeff Swann 2y ago

Ivermectin is cheap & safe enough that if not for the corruption could have been taken daily as a preventative to reduce the viral load in anyone with any sort of additional risk factors. Staying cooped up inside & wearing masks doesn't prevent anything. If all social gatherings were outside & no one had worn masks the results would have been better. The places with mask mandates across the board seem to have a slightly higher occurance of respiratory issues because breathing through a bacteria laden cloth all day isn't good for anyone.