Analogy: you buy a car from a used car salesman. It conks out a couple of months later. You go back and buy another one off him. The same thing happens again. His solution: buy another one from me!
@WalterF Thankyou! What I suggest is you cite the book here, so others know of it as well.
I am no more sure of myself than anyone else but I try to gain knowledge and form views as fairly as possible.
For I have no answers to the pandemic other than what everyone around the world has been trying - and many European countries are now suffering from increasing rates of infection, with some having to enforce new lock-downs etc.
Some of the precations are hardly new: vaccination is, historically, but the word "quarantine" and its meaning in this context is from Italy, part of their efforts to limit the spread of Bubonic Plague hundreds of years ago.
@ArishMell I won't cite the book on here, for the simple reason that those who adhere religiously to every word that comes from the fact-checker's pen will jump on their hobby horses and scream that:
[i]-these authors are "not reliable," or "unqualified" or "alt-right sympathisers" or "selfish" or "harming people" or "vicious misinformers" or "banned on Facebook" and therefore should be burned at the stake along with their book
-the hundreds of studies / articles quoted as references and sources are "contrary to The Science" or "not peer reviewed" or "totally false" or "unbelievably biased" or "absurd" or "manipulative" or "not referenced on The Wikipedia List of All Acceptable Coronavirus Studies"
- the fact that it is written in clear informative language with short, titled sections, making it easy and agreeable for the layman to read, clearly shows that its aim is subversion, appealing to the "anti-vaxxer mob" in order to goad them on to more bioterrorism, and even attempting to persuade the faithful to doubt The Cause. This cannot be allowed![/i]
Enough said; you get the picture. We've all seen all the above in action on all coronavirus posts
This is a scholarly yet palatable, objective work which cannot be dismissed by the above tired fact-checker one-size-fits-all ammunition. And yet it's a fascinating read. I am not far from p200 and still being edified.
Nothing to lose by me sending you the title. (Unfortunately the title is perhaps ill-chosen! That's the only criticism of it that I could imagine.)
NB A kindle owner can download a sizeable sample free, as I did before buying the book (around £20)
Then, if you read the sample or the book, and find it corresponds to the f-c criticisms above, then I would find it perfectly natural that you would pull it to pieces on here, publicly.
@WalterF Oh dear - yes I see the problem! Not so much criticism by difference of opinion but critiscism for expressing differing opinion, perhaps.
By all means PM the reference. I don't have a Kindle or equivalent though.
Meanwhile... this horrible still-new disease shows no sign of ending its world tour soon, and in some ways it's remarkable we've not had pandemics as widespread and serious as this previously. As a friend who is a senior medical lecturer gloomily expressed it to me, just be glad it was not Ebola, which is fast-acting and virtually incurable.
Even Bubonic Plague ("The Black Death") that was once among the main pandemic diseases, still kills people occasionally. Nowadays it is curable if caught early, but it can kill very rapidly. However it is largely kept in check by modern hygiene, as its primary carrier is the flea that in times gone by was a universal parasite as happy to feed on humans as on the then-ubiquitous rats.
