There's something so incredibly gaslighty about having people defend actions that prolong the pandemic by saying they want the pandemic to be over.
I DO TOO, DUDE. A lot more than you do, in fact, because I'm willing to maintain drastically changed behaviour for years to achieve that.
The sides are not "I love pandemics" vs "I don't like pandemics". They're "I want to pretend the pandemic is over while ensuring it never ends" vs "I want it to ACTUALLY end."
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@thesunshinesushi I agree the pandemic isnt over.. but sadly the idea that you can eliminate the disease by observing certain practices just isnt reality either. No amount of mask wearing or washing hands will ever make COVID go away, the same way thatthe Flu and the common Cold will never go away.
Best you can do is wear hazmat gear for years on end till it finally dwindles to insignificant levels and then when you finally take off the hazmat COVID will spread like wildfire again.
The nature of how vaccines on COVID work means we will **never** eliminate it like we did small pox. It is here to stay, forever. Eliminating it isnt an option so only thing left to decide is how we want to respond to the fact that it is here for the long run.
Sincerely yours, a COVID research scientist.
@freemo I would love to see what you've published or put your name on as a covid researcher
@a_cup_of_sugar Sure thing, you can just search my name, but when im back home I can link you directly.
I am the lead over at Scentech right now. We analyze VoCs in COVID patients and I am the one who made it possible to classify covid from only a breath sample. Prior to that I worked with the DoD and invented an algorithm pre-COVID used to modeling disease proliferation.
@freemo you're a machine learning expert by all search results. I don't see anything about you being a covid research scientist
@a_cup_of_sugar I literally run a COVID research lab right now at Scentech and just told you two examples, my discovery of a system able to detect COVID from VoC as breath and the discovery of an algorithm used in disease proliferation.
@freemo You said to search you up, so I did. Your profile at your company does not mention anything about covid, and your Google Scholar page also has nothing about covid.
You're "search my name" approach is working against you.
@a_cup_of_sugar Did you happen to notice the fact that my title at the company is head of all STEM operations (CIO) and internal operations (EVP) and that the **only** thing the company does is COVID research right now (though in the past we were working on cancer too)?
Like I said when I get home I am more than happy to link you to some COVID specific stuff.
More importantly you seem very strangly antagonistic... are you this confrontational everytime you find out someone is in the research field?
@a_cup_of_sugar I'm guessing you also missed this part?
@a_cup_of_sugar@mastodon.The page is the current summary of our COVID data collection for all of our clinical studies. The linnk shows you the database which, references our clinical studies
@freemo What even is that page? A standalone image with no context, and two outside links. The first is just the Clinical Trials home page and the second link requires you to be logged in. Who even MADE this website?? This is a REALLY bad look for you!