OT: OT-what he doesn’t know is this is a buck and a quarter quarter staff

[Der Jaeger]

And back out the door we go. See you in a week depending on how Milton goes.

 

[paulmm3]

Reading Comprehension Fail. Refer to bolded text.

Try "Retired Social Media Developer and Marshall McLuhan fan" syndrome

I'm an emergency physician. I was dismayed by how government and media selectively communicated the misleading case fatality rate rather than the more relevant infection fatality rate of Covid during 2020-2022. Given the Covid's ridiculously high contagiousness rate, but relatively low infection fatality rate, I thought a lot of the precautions that were taken were misguided. Twitter/X was the single one and only place I could express opinions I gained from four years of medical school, three years of residency, 6 days a week in the emergency department, and my review of current literature. Anywhere else on the internet I tried to express what I thought were reasonable, data-driven opinions, those opinions were removed. I see Twitter/X as bringing immense value to the world for allowing people to discuss points of view that might be outside the approved orthodoxy. I'll get off my soapbox but I find Twitter/X to have immeasurable, unique value and those who take issue with that value proposition to be small minded.

 

[newfiejesus]

I'm an emergency physician. I was dismayed by how government and media selectively communicated the misleading case fatality rate rather than the more relevant infection fatality rate of Covid during 2020-2022. Given the Covid's ridiculously high contagiousness rate, but relatively low infection fatality rate, I thought a lot of the precautions that were taken were misguided. Twitter/X was the single one and only place I could express opinions I gained from four years of medical school, three years of residency, 6 days a week in the emergency department, and my review of current literature. Anywhere else on the internet I tried to express what I thought were reasonable, data-driven opinions, those opinions were removed. I see Twitter/X as bringing immense value to the world for allowing people to discuss points of view that might be outside the approved orthodoxy. I'll get off my soapbox but I find Twitter/X to have immeasurable, unique value and those who take issue with that value proposition to be small minded.

Certainly, great example. Arab Spring, another good example. All kinds of them out there. No argument there.

Where was your opinion removed?

 

[paulmm3]

Certainly, great example. Arab Spring, another good example. All kinds of them out there. No argument there.

Where was your opinion removed?

I misspoke a bit initially - my opinion was aggressively removed on Twitter prior to Musk's acquisition. I think the aggressive censorship on Twitter pre-Musk was his main reason for buying it. Physicians I agreed with and supported (Jay Bhattacharya, Scott Atlas at Stanford) were aggressively removed from Instagram I know, which I've never used so I have no experience with. Not sure about Facebook. I was also moderated out of comments sections on the WSJ and NYT. And certainly there was lot of self-censorship in the professional setting thanks to people aggressively reporting dissenting MDs to medical boards - although fortunately the section chief of my emergency department saw the same things I did and agreed with me entirely.

Edit: I know a bunch of videos the Stanford gang I found myself in agreement with put up were removed from YouTube as well.

 

[KiwiGriff]

I remember people getting upset with me if I would decline meetings they'd set up when they wouldn't include any sort of agenda.

I do that. Luckily not very often but I don't have time to waste going to a meeting that quite likely even when I know what it's about ... is still a waste of my time.

I love when people reschedule a regularly recurring meeting to a different day and then they are over 5 minutes late to it....

One of my team deals with a guy in Australia who regularly sets up meetings with us in NZ and then forgets to show to the meeting where he wants to talk to us about something.

 

[KiwiGriff]

I'm an emergency physician. I was dismayed by how government and media selectively communicated the misleading case fatality rate rather than the more relevant infection fatality rate of Covid during 2020-2022. Given the Covid's ridiculously high contagiousness rate, but relatively low infection fatality rate, I thought a lot of the precautions that were taken were misguided. Twitter/X was the single one and only place I could express opinions I gained from four years of medical school, three years of residency, 6 days a week in the emergency department, and my review of current literature. Anywhere else on the internet I tried to express what I thought were reasonable, data-driven opinions, those opinions were removed. I see Twitter/X as bringing immense value to the world for allowing people to discuss points of view that might be outside the approved orthodoxy. I'll get off my soapbox but I find Twitter/X to have immeasurable, unique value and those who take issue with that value proposition to be small minded.

Well written. Thanks. And interesting to hear a succinct summary of your views on Covid.

I never signed up for Twitter. It was a conscious decision when it first became a thing so has nothing to do with what it offered, who owns it or how its culture has changed. So I look on with some amusement as people get passionate about the state of it. Like hearing people argue about a band and all you can add to the conversation is "they're musicians right?"

 

[newfiejesus]

I misspoke a bit initially - my opinion was aggressively removed on Twitter prior to Musk's acquisition. I think the aggressive censorship on Twitter pre-Musk was his main reason for buying it. Physicians I agreed with and supported (Jay Bhattacharya, Scott Atlas at Stanford) were aggressively removed from Instagram I know, which I've never used so I have no experience with. Not sure about Facebook. I was also moderated out of comments sections on the WSJ and NYT. And certainly there was lot of self-censorship in the professional setting thanks to people aggressively reporting dissenting MDs to medical boards - although fortunately the section chief of my emergency department saw the same things I did and agreed with me entirely.

That's partly what I'm referring to. Not all covid response skepticism is the same, but often anyone singing out of tune with the choir was stomped down. I sympathize with that, but this is part of the bigger issue with twitter, social media, media, and the spaces our heads enter to find news and information. Your experiences and credentials and those of your colleagues were lumped in with Joe Sixpack who hates needles, and Yuri who is a bored contrarian. I could be a conservative who's suddenly lumped in with Pizzagate or the Birthers.

It's not a love of freedom of speech, it's love of money. What opinions are hanging out with yours on that site? What's with Tesla and SpaceX always appearing in my feed, despite my having blocked all related words and content?

It's always about the money!