"We follow science" is such a manipulative and misleading statement. Science provides data, but it takes a real leader to take the data and find the best solution in balancing everything.
Scientifically, we could end COVID immediately, you just have to isolate every human in the world in their own cage 6 feet apart for 14 days.
Just because you can use math and data to prove something doesn't mean anything. It's the application that matters.
Cartesian Doubt (skepticism) is also arguably the most critical principle of science. “The science” has to be subject to skepticism or it isn’t science, and no progress is made.
"We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress." ― Richard P. Feynman
As for covid, it’s actually worse than you say. If all you care about is “science” and all you care about is ending covid, you could just kill everyone who might have covid and disregard ethics along with all negative consequences of killing people. That’s what the National Socialists did: kill the children with disabilities “because science” and “muh ethical claims are unscientific”.
"We follow science" is such a manipulative and misleading statement. Science provides data, but it takes a real leader to take the data and find the best solution in balancing everything.
Scientifically, we could end COVID immediately, you just have to isolate every human in the world in their own cage 6 feet apart for 14 days.
Just because you can use math and data to prove something doesn't mean anything. It's the application that matters.
Cartesian Doubt (skepticism) is also arguably the most critical principle of science. “The science” has to be subject to skepticism or it isn’t science, and no progress is made.
"We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress." ― Richard P. Feynman
As for covid, it’s actually worse than you say. If all you care about is “science” and all you care about is ending covid, you could just kill everyone who might have covid and disregard ethics along with all negative consequences of killing people. That’s what the National Socialists did: kill the children with disabilities “because science” and “muh ethical claims are unscientific”.
Hell, you can describe impossible things with math also.