Ready R-Naught: This Virus Has Fooled Us Before

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"Reproducibility and replicability are fundamentally important aspects of the scientific method", or so one Robert Gerlai had published on February 23, 2018 in the Pharmacology Biochemistry Behavior journal before an evolving science, when Dr. Walensky had noted that we cannot predict human behavior, this virus isn't stupid, and human choices had not served them well.

Who could have predicted that despite its first use in 1870, while working with anthrax, science would forget Koch's Postulates, the systematic methodology to determine causation of infectious disease, and the easiest way in the world, "How Many Licks Does It Take to Get the Center of a Tootsie Roll Pop" Simplicity, to determine the still unknown, officially as of May 7, 2021, infectious dose. The Tootsie Roll owl also never leaked a PowerPoint on infectiousness of a delta variant of concern, either. Just saying.

Who could have predicted that a 2010 report by NIOSH, using the same diagnostic equipment used to rate the N95 and other hydrophobic medical grade respiratory protection (the respirator only filters on the intake, you know?), would be discarded, while hydrophilic substitutes for PPE would no longer just be used for source control?

Who could have predicted that the CDC that had hailed trace contacts follow up, the most efficient and effective means for case identification, as the key to the outbreak during the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, would prioritize the whosoever will let him come method for locating a needle in a haystack and call it science, also defeating any effort to discover the actual secondary attack rate?

But with six million fatalities worldwide, who really wants to be like the administrator at the Department of Veterans Affairs who had closed the doors to visitation at the 134 veterans care facilities to be proactive, one day before the WHO pandemic declaration, and have to admit that, like The Atlantic and Boston University had done in March 2021 on compiling racial disparities in COVID-19 outcomes, he just stopped counting the infections and the dead, and one day somehow they had 22,000 dead veterans with no explanation why, and attributed to a biological agent that the government can neither confirm nor deny that it owns.