> Starting off with an ad hominem almost made me completely dismiss the rest of your post, assuming you started with your best point.
The point seems clear enough to me. He’s not likely to have changed his views or methods in this new article, therefore someone who had an issue with his IFR figures in 2021 still isn’t going to find it convincing.
Not sure what Hitler has to do with anything.
> The only argument for mandates was that we should "do it for grandma" or some other completely senseless claim considering I don't know anybody who was vaccinated that still didn't get and spread Covid (multiple times in most cases).
It’s unclear what “mandates” are referred to in the original post. You seem to think it refers to vaccines. That was not the only argument put forth for vaccine mandates. There are quite a few others which you can find by googling, of various or dubious validity.
Edit: I agree btw that some justifications for vaccine mandates no longer seem to make sense in the face of omicron breaking through vaccine protection from infection.
> haven't seen any data indicating newer variants in circulation are more dangerous.
Omicron is widely reported to be milder and less dangerous than delta. I’m surprised you haven’t seen this since it was all over even popular media in 2021. Here’s the first article on google. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35415869/
Also, to be clear , as I mentioned “alleged” in my original post - there’s been a lot of scary social media posts hyping up various Omicron variants as more dangerous. None of which have panned out as far as I know, which is why I mentioned Omicron still seems less dangerous than delta.
As much as anything this guy said in the past. I don't know or care who he is, if you have an issue with false data being presented here, then show how it is false. Since you haven't I can assume you can't. Which makes your statement about the author irrelevant. We're discussing this piece and the information contained herein.
> Omicron is widely reported to be milder and less dangerous than delta.
Neither of these are the original Wuhan virus, which was the most dangerous. Omicron and Delta both appear to be far less dangerous than the OG Covid strain. Or did you mean something different?
The point seems clear enough to me. He’s not likely to have changed his views or methods in this new article, therefore someone who had an issue with his IFR figures in 2021 still isn’t going to find it convincing.
Not sure what Hitler has to do with anything.
> The only argument for mandates was that we should "do it for grandma" or some other completely senseless claim considering I don't know anybody who was vaccinated that still didn't get and spread Covid (multiple times in most cases).
It’s unclear what “mandates” are referred to in the original post. You seem to think it refers to vaccines. That was not the only argument put forth for vaccine mandates. There are quite a few others which you can find by googling, of various or dubious validity.
Edit: I agree btw that some justifications for vaccine mandates no longer seem to make sense in the face of omicron breaking through vaccine protection from infection.
> haven't seen any data indicating newer variants in circulation are more dangerous.
Omicron is widely reported to be milder and less dangerous than delta. I’m surprised you haven’t seen this since it was all over even popular media in 2021. Here’s the first article on google. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35415869/
Also, to be clear , as I mentioned “alleged” in my original post - there’s been a lot of scary social media posts hyping up various Omicron variants as more dangerous. None of which have panned out as far as I know, which is why I mentioned Omicron still seems less dangerous than delta.