Interesting. Totally off topic, but I keep running into seemingly undiagnosed cases of DID on Facebook. When I ask if they told a professional the answer is always that the executive control prevents verbalizing the condition. Anyway, I'm sure you are good at it.I'm a consultant in psychology, I advise (among other clients) long-term risk analysts. They usually have a team of academics from all sorts of fields so there's considerable debate. None of it goes like this! — Isaac
keep running into seemingly undiagnosed cases of DID on Facebook. When I ask if they told a professional the answer is always that the executive control prevents verbalizing the condition. Anyway, I'm sure you are good at it. — Cheshire
The thread. What's the take away? — Cheshire
Based on this analysis what should everyone do? — Cheshire
Are the resources available to make a risk/benefit analysis on an individual basis prior to being over taken by the pandemic- read defeating our own purpose in creating a vaccine? — Cheshire
You're more likely to be a vector if you don't get vaccinated, so there's that. Don't ask for citation. You should have already read the findings on that. — frank
There's been less than a handful of studies on transmission, none, to my knowledge, have compared vaccination to other hygiene measures, only to non-vaccination with undifferentiated other actions. — Isaac
I think the evidence is quite compelling that vaccination lowers transmission on average and so is a good public policy, but we're questioning moral duty here, not public policy. The two are different and operate under different assumptions. — Isaac
Do you see why you appear hypocritical here? — frank
Antivaccination as it's understood would not consider vaccination a good public policy. — Cheshire
If you think vaccination reduces transmission in all cases you'd be quite justified in thinking that. I don't agree, and am also quite justified in doing so. The evidence is sufficiently imprecise to support a difference of opinion. The hypocrisy is in thinking I'm the only one susceptible to it. — Isaac
I can doubt a vaccine, am I an antivaxxer?Language users I suppose. I've heard some of the academics I've cited called anti-vaxxers. If you want to talk only about some particular homogeneous group then the conversation might be different, but that's not the terms in which I first engaged. — Isaac
I can doubt a vaccine, am I an antivaxxer? — Cheshire
So, in order to maintain your position you have to argue the prefix -anti (in this novel case) does not imply opposition, but merely the capability for balanced inquiry. I don't think that's representative of the case.As I said. It's a term I've heard applied in those cases, yes. — Isaac
So, in order to maintain your position you have to argue the prefix -anti (in this novel case) does not imply opposition, but merely the capability for balanced inquiry. — Cheshire
Oh, I thought this discussion was taking place in a context. Yes, there's lots of things spooky about vaccines. Immune responses can swell your brain and kill you. So, doing what's it's designed to do is still a threat. And your right, corporations are in business to make money. Setting objective welfare in opposition to profit brought us the Pinto. An exploding American vehicle. All that's well and good. And none of it is reason to oppose vaccinations; merely question them. You are not anti-vaccine. Glad we agree.No. My 'position' has nothing to do with the term 'anti-vaccine', it just happens to have arisen in a thread of that title (threads are like that sometimes) and then you asked me about the term. Gods! Who's arguing for arguing's sake now? — Isaac
Does anyone have misgivings about the vaccine which don't pertain to altering public policy or threaten advocacy for the general participation of the public? — Cheshire
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