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Questioning "the science"

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thewendyhouse Tue 03-Nov-20 06:58:06

I'm surprised and disappointed by how many intelligent and educated people are blindly accepting "the science" and "the scientists" without looking into this for themselves. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but an independent thinker. Instead of accepting all the scaremongering, please read this article and decide for yourselves:https://lockdownsceptics.org/what-sage-got-wrong/

suziewoozie Tue 03-Nov-20 22:42:03

The saliva test is the one they are going to pilot in Liverpool using the army starting on Friday. It apparently has a very high specificity and is much quicker to process than the current one which is why it could be such a game changer. For example, it would allow care home visits to happen

Callistemon Tue 03-Nov-20 22:48:35

That's good.
I think the present method isn't very pleasant, particularly for young children or the elderly and a quicker processing time would be a huge step forward.

suziewoozie Tue 03-Nov-20 23:28:13

petra there’s no way I think that CH would want to be part of SAGE - he’s ploughing a particular furrow and SAGE isn’t part of it. That’s not meant in a critical way, just an observation of the politics of all this.

maddyone Tue 03-Nov-20 23:53:46

The one thing we know is how little we know!

maddyone Tue 03-Nov-20 23:55:30

But knowledge about how to treat this virus and how it spreads is increasing.