If Joe Biden wins, will the media forget the pandemic after January 20th 2021? — ssu
Absurdly parochial, ssu — Banno
And the reason why have they been so unable is an important question.Absurdly parochial, ssu. The pandemic is not an issue only for 'mercans. It's just that they have been, tragically, the least able to deal with it. — Banno
will there still be a political demand to emphasize covid over other problems affecting American society. — Hanover
A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and trains the immune system.
Trials involving around 1,077 people showed the injection led to them making antibodies and white blood cells that can fight coronavirus.
The findings are hugely promising, but it is still too soon to know if this is enough to offer protection and larger trials are under way.
There is no circumstantial evidence, only a hypothesis which is not supported by any type of evidence. — Benkei
I'm not sure what you are disagreeing with.
The very definition of circumstantial evidence I cited from wikipedia is that it is very weak and compatible with mutually exclusive hypothesis. I am using circumstantial evidence in the way wikipedia describes.
Your issue with my statements seem to be you want to gate-keep the word evidence for the lawyer community.
If someone brings up a fact, and it seems plausibly tied to the case, I simply see no problem calling it evidence and analyzing from there. Questioning whether it counts as evidence or not seems a sterile debate. A detective tries to collect or record all the "evidence" in a case, without prejudice as to what's important enough to be called "evidence".
I have no problem saying "we have evidence" and concluding "based on the evidence, no scenario seems more likely", which is my position.
So, if you want to set yourself up as arbiter of what counts as evidence (what premises people are even allowed to propose for making an argument), then I am happy to continue there. — boethius
Circumstantial evidence is evidence that relies on an inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact—such as a fingerprint at the scene of a crime. — wiki
You are willing to entertain that because Jane was murdered in her bedroom and because John's handprints are all over the house but not yet found in her bedroom that this is circumstantial evidence of John having murdered Jane. — Benkei
At present, there is no direct evidence (from studies on COVID- 19 and in healthy people in the community) on the effectiveness of universal masking of healthy people in the community to prevent infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19. — NOS4A2
Of course it does. Did you not read my comment? I wrote:It was a direct quote from the WHO.... You don’t think that means anything? — NOS4A2
It says, putting masks on healthy people shows no direct evidence of preventing rabies, uh, sorry, leprosy, uh, carpal tunnel syndrome, glanders - wait, the Covid-19 virus! That's right! Healthy people don't have these things and therefore don't transmit them.You realize, don't you, that you have said exactly nothing here. (Bold and italics added.) — tim wood
• There is no shortage of mechanistic evidence and observational studies that affirmed the benefits of wearing a face mask in the community, which should drive urgent public health policy while we await the results of further research. — Universal masking for COVID-19: evidence, ethics and recommendations
Inconsistent messages from the experts and policy makers about the rationale for the recommendation has led to confusion in the community. — Universal masking for COVID-19: evidence, ethics and recommendations
Won't do. Nothing new.Or maybe one can simply refrain from spitting on others. — NOS4A2
Sure, we already know, including your re-response to Banno. And, say, it's not like some to whom wearing such head gear would be detrimental are both being forced to go out in public and wear detrimental head gear, rather protecting them is of importance here. Get real. Don't be such a childish contrarian. :) Why wouldn't you want to protect when it's so simple and cheap, and we've already had people preventably suffering and dying?public health officials need to weigh the pros and cons — NOS4A2
i find that the mask finger-wagging is largely done at the expense of other preventative measures, which rarely enters the discourse around the topic. — NOS4A2
If there is an HIV gene in coronavirus that is evidence, a "fact of the case" (and, please note, I say "assuming this is true" in my analysis), that would need to be established if one wanted to argue that the virus was genetically engineered with HIV (if other evidence came to light, such as testimony of a researcher claiming they were involved in mixing HIV and coronavirus, it would of course be necessary to establish whether HIV genes really are in coronavirus in the first place, because it's important evidence to such an argument). — boethius
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