{"id":6790,"date":"2020-04-25T12:57:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T12:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/?p=6790"},"modified":"2020-04-25T12:57:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T12:57:30","slug":"opinion-the-bearer-of-good-coronavirus-news-wall-street-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/?p=6790","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The Bearer of Good Coronavirus News \/ Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have provided this excerpt and a link to the full article. If you are interested and cannot access the entire article, let me know and I will send it to you via email. The point is to help us see that we need to examine all the research\/information and not accept anything at face value whether it is labeled “science” or not. Also, if you want more information on the following the science “mantra” just do a Google search using “follow the science” or combining the words “follow and science” etc.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Opinion | The Bearer of Good Coronavirus News<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Allysia Finley 11-14 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Defenders of coronavirus lockdown mandates keep talking about science.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Defenders of coronavirus lockdown mandates keep talking about science. \u201cWe are going to do the right thing, not judge by politics, not judge by protests, but by science,\u201d California\u2019s Gov. Gavin Newsom said this week. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer defended an order that, among other things, banned the sale of paint and vegetable seeds but not liquor or lottery tickets. \u201cEach action has been informed by the best science and epidemiology counsel there is,\u201d she wrote in an op-ed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But scientists are almost never unanimous, and many appeals to \u201cscience\u201d are transparently political or ideological.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

But scientists are almost never unanimous, and many appeals to \u201cscience\u201d are transparently political or ideological. Consider the story of John Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford\u2019s School of Medicine. His expertise is wide-ranging\u2014he juggles appointments in statistics, biomedical data, prevention research and health research and policy. Google Scholar ranks him among the world\u2019s 100 most-cited scientists. He has published more than 1,000 papers, many of them meta-analyses\u2014reviews of other studies. Yet he\u2019s now found himself pilloried because he dissents from the theories behind the lockdowns\u2014because he\u2019s looked at the data and found good news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a March article for Stat News, Dr. Ioannidis argued that Covid-19 is far less deadly than modelers were assuming. He considered the experience of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was quarantined Feb. 4 in Japan. Nine of 700 infected passengers and crew died. Based on the demographics of the ship\u2019s population, Dr. Ioannidis estimated that the U.S. fatality rate could be as low as 0.025% to 0.625% and put the upper bound at 0.05% to 1%\u2014comparable to that of seasonal flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf that is the true rate,\u201d he wrote, \u201clocking down the world with potentially tremendous social and financial consequences may be totally irrational. It\u2019s like an elephant being attacked by a house cat. Frustrated and trying to avoid the cat, the elephant accidentally jumps off a cliff and dies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have provided this excerpt and a link to the full article. If you are interested and cannot access the entire article, let me know and I will send it to you via email. The point is to help us see that we need to examine all the research\/information and not accept anything at face […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6791,"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}