Why Do We Listen To These "Experts"?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-vaccinating-whole-of-the-uk-population-could-take-a-year-scientists-warn-12161869
It'll take a year to vaccinate the country, right oh? from the same people that said it would take at least 2 years to have a vaccine ready to go! I reckon we'll be all done by Easter.

[Sqad]

Wòofy, in the context of this thread, I define "experts " as Bacferiologists or Virologists and i think that we can agree that the aforementioned are neither.
No disrespect to your contributions.

[Peter Pedant]

why do we have to listen to experts
when we have TTT ?
why indeed

[bobbinwales]

and youngmafbog who thinks Chris witty (Wittless to youngmafbog, vallance and hammond whoever that is) are useless and know far less than him and the other posters her worships on covid

[douglas9401]

'Bacferioligists'

Freudian slip? :-)

[bobbinwales]

Witless and Vallance who produces the dodgy graphs apparantly which really means he doesnt undastand them or want to

[Sqad]

douglas ..lol

[Peter Pedant]

witless swished his arms over the number who would die
and produced a possibly ridiculously high number as an upper bound which we have exceeded

but then the greatest man on earth - Pres Trump that is! - seems unconcerned about half a million deaths
ten times the total Vietnam death toll ( clearly not Vietnamese)
and a 9-11 every two days

[woofgang]

Sqad "Wòofy, in the context of this thread, I define "experts " as Bacferiologists or Virologists and i think that we can agree that the aforementioned are neither.
No disrespect to your contributions."

no but I don't pretend to be

[THECORBYLOON]

TTT, you didn't use the word "scaremongering" but your first response to the suggestion was, "perlease!".

That does appear to suggest you had little faith in the projected figure.

[eve1974]

every headline is sensationalism!

[ToraToraTora]

TCL, 20:18, where?

[eve1974]

I wonder how New Year Eve will be celebrated this year. I think when midnight rolls around there will be a lot of mutterings of "who've ever have thought that this time last year....!"

[THECORBYLOON]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1702379.html

[ToraToraTora]

haha of course you have!

[ToraToraTora]

i do admire your devotion TCL but you missed the "Perlease" point - if you read further you'd see that it was gromit's anti Britishness I was attacking. Sad he's now spat the dummy out but he was a shining light in the anti British movement on AB.

[bednobs]

the experts are saying it could tke up to a year to vaccinate EVERYONE, you are saying it'll "be done" by easter, but then you say you are not talking about the same thing - vaccinating everyone. So you and them could both be right. Or neither of you. Or one of you

[THECORBYLOON]

TTT, I had read on and GROMIT's second post (prior to your initial one) was,

"http://www.healthdata.org/covid/updates

// Deaths in the UK are forecast to peak the third week of April, with an estimated 2,932 deaths on April 17. The model shows that the UK will not have enough beds and ICU beds to meet demand, with the shortage peaking at 23,745 ICU beds on April 17, and predicts 66,314 total deaths in the country by August 4. //"

It was only after three further posts from Gromit (after your "perlease!") that you posted, "never miss a chance to knock us eh gromit?"

[ToraToraTora]

Yes gromit was a leading light in our fifth column. Hi Gromit I'm sure you are looking in.

[THECORBYLOON]

It certainly looks like your first response was to the figures and not to any "anti Britishness".

[ToraToraTora]

I always try and jump on the fifth column first and foremost TCL, sure you understand.