99% of medicine is throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.
Social distancing was an easy way to make it less likely to spread based on similar viruses. Until they had more verifiable ways it was a quick and cheap answer to a complex problem. Sometimes those are necessary, especially when millions of lives are on the line.
99% of medicine is throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.
Social distancing was an easy way to make it less likely to spread
I’m just going to keep copy and pasting in this thread: This was not communicated to the public in the beginning. Recommendations were stated definitively (i.e., without the qualification that we don’t really know what to do yet) and then latter revised. This erodes public trust.
Go take a biochem class and educate yourself on how fucking stupid that comment sounded. You’re basically saying modern chemisty is equivalent to ancient alchemy, which … is hilariously moronic.
It’s not all of medical science, no. We know a great deal. But that only pertains to general study, and not specific cases. We don’t know shit about someone, medically, until we do tests. Even then, we can’t do an in-depth dissection of them (because that would be wildly inhumane) so we can mostly only go off surface level information. Even for more in-depth information, say with x-rays and MRIs or blood tests, it still only general knowledge. Each person is unique, and has unique characteristics. So we need to take what information we have and try and match it to previous cases to determine what it could be.
Sometimes it’s really easy. “You have a cold, go drink some water and get some rest”. Sometimes it’s not, they have some obscure neurological disorder that only affects .0000001% of the population (at a guess).
99% of medicine is throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.
Social distancing was an easy way to make it less likely to spread based on similar viruses. Until they had more verifiable ways it was a quick and cheap answer to a complex problem. Sometimes those are necessary, especially when millions of lives are on the line.
I’m just going to keep copy and pasting in this thread: This was not communicated to the public in the beginning. Recommendations were stated definitively (i.e., without the qualification that we don’t really know what to do yet) and then latter revised. This erodes public trust.
No, no that is not medicine.
Go take a biochem class and educate yourself on how fucking stupid that comment sounded. You’re basically saying modern chemisty is equivalent to ancient alchemy, which … is hilariously moronic.
It’s not all of medical science, no. We know a great deal. But that only pertains to general study, and not specific cases. We don’t know shit about someone, medically, until we do tests. Even then, we can’t do an in-depth dissection of them (because that would be wildly inhumane) so we can mostly only go off surface level information. Even for more in-depth information, say with x-rays and MRIs or blood tests, it still only general knowledge. Each person is unique, and has unique characteristics. So we need to take what information we have and try and match it to previous cases to determine what it could be.
Sometimes it’s really easy. “You have a cold, go drink some water and get some rest”. Sometimes it’s not, they have some obscure neurological disorder that only affects .0000001% of the population (at a guess).
A CT scan and blood draw on an individual is absolutely not in any way, “still only general knowledge.”
The fact you even say such a thing belies your utter lack of understanding of medical diagnosis.