I think it’s misguided. There are plenty of holes in the system. I can think of at least one really easy way to get a lot of stuff through security. It’s very obviously but I’ve never shared it publicly. In any case, someone plotting some legit terrorism isn’t going to be foiled by these changing color days “****! They raised the alert and we have to take off our shoes!”
I don't like traveling through airports in China due to the extra attention from security I receive. But I'm very grateful that I don't have to take off my damn shoes here, lol. And maybe I like the extra full body pat downs they give me from all the all female security staff...
It will be interesting to see what comes of it. My biggest questions regarding this have been the differences in mortality and the reported reduced mortality with ACE-inhibitors, the latter going completely contrary to everything that's been said previously. I know that there was question regarding the sizes claimed as of the dates listed, that there were discrepancies based on how many people were actually hospitalized as of certain dates. In any case, I do have questions about how they're mining some of the data (such as VTach that runs >6 seconds.... how is that showing up in a chart that they can mine those things?). Anyway, not saying there aren't answers. Will just have to wait. But if there are issues here that drastically compromise what their findings were, I think it's overall good for society come to grips with this. There's been a large deification of science without properly understanding what that means (if people were surveyed on what that term even meant, there would be no consistencies because it's a catchall for so many different things). In any case, for a long period of time you had religious institutions exerting a large amount of influence throughout communities and the world on what people thought. There were very simplistic views on things and there was a sense of literalism with which people would interpret scripture as well as inerrant views on religious leadership. As these views have started to significantly change over time, and as we've got more liberal in our interpretations of religious experience, we've felt an undying, yet largely unconscious, need to seek for authority and absolutism that eases our anxieties about the complexities of the world and our existence. Right now as a society, our approach to science is currently at the phase of acceptance by authority, and understandings and readings of the literature being done in the same way that more fundamentalist religious practitioners may view and implement their scripture, without a very nuanced understanding of knowing how all those beliefs and writings came to be.
