ASR didn't say "Easily Manageable" but...

[Rottentofu]

Okay guys, since many of us are attacking ASR for his coined phase "easily manageable", we might as well get it right. In all fairness, he didn't actually said "easily manageable", it was inferred from his "quite manageable" phase. But still..."quite manageable" is still blatantly wrong in the face of all the new facts surfacing every day. He still deserves all the @ss kicking.

[bigbossman]

A distinction without much difference.

[gcvt]

I'm sure he'll be here soon to correct you

[Rottentofu]

I'm sure he'll be here soon to correct you

Nah, he is too scared to come back. The shame is too great for him to bear.

[Squatch]

At the beginning of Covid, on another site, I was attacked for not drinking the Covid koolaid. These are people that dont believe anything the government says but were all the sudden scared to death and believing everything. I took a break from that site for almost a year.

When I went back most of them were now saying exactly what I said at the beginning. I started a thread giving them a chance to apologize or, at least, admit I was right. Crickets!

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[stix213]

I thought "easily manageable" actually came from news reporting around myocarditis, not ASR.

[Beelzy]

Lol, "quite manageable" is even more pompous.

[sd_shooter]

This thread needs to be a sticky here in the covid forum.

Where are the mods when you need them?

[StuckInTheP.R.O.Ca]

He is now an expert in the Ukraine war.

[LBDamned]

He is now an expert in the Ukraine war.

is that war "easily" manageable? Or "quite" manageable?

For the guy's walls and walls of text - he lives in infamy from only two simple words (even they have been a source of contention)

[SanDiego619]

I stand corrected. In future posts, I will correctly say "quite manageable" instead of "easily manageable".

[LBDamned]

I stand corrected. In future posts, I will correctly say "quite manageable" instead of "easily manageable".

And if you want to troll the hard-cores - insist it was "easily" and not "quite"... then argue in circles about it

[tundraboomer]

I think you guys need to dial it back a notch or two on ASR.

He said, "They still seem to be quite manageable..." which was his interpretation of the data he had available at the time. I always argued with him that the data we didn't yet have was why we should all be skeptics and that time would reveal all. But he based his reasoning on the data that was available and there at the time and based on that, leaving intuition and conjecture out of it, even if it seemed obvious that many pieces were missing, he had a hypothesis based on what was known as factual data at the time.

It's a reasonable position, even if it was wrong.

I think it's important to have the insight of someone like him, even if we disagree in the end. It affords us a window into the scientific mind that we might not otherwise have access to. For me it was a real eye-opener to see someone so frickin' intelligent accept the data at face value and not question its accuracy or, more importantly, what might have been conveniently omitted due to what was clearly a very politicized topic.

And then there's the issue of time, which I blathered on about in previous threads.

Anyway, isn't this what "discussion groups" are for? I find it all very fascinating and I enjoy his posts, even if they seem pompous and I disagree with them.

[LBDamned]

^^^ he said it's "easily manageable"... I was there.

[Rottentofu]

I think you guys need to dial it back a notch or two on ASR.

He said, "They still seem to be quite manageable..." which was his interpretation of the data he had available at the time. I always argued with him that the data we didn't yet have was why we should all be skeptics and that time would reveal all. But he based his reasoning on the data that was available and there at the time and based on that, leaving intuition and conjecture out of it, even if it seemed obvious that many pieces were missing, he had a hypothesis based on what was known as factual data at the time.

It's a reasonable position, even if it was wrong.

I think it's important to have the insight of someone like him, even if we disagree in the end. It affords us a window into the scientific mind that we might not otherwise have access to. For me it was a real eye-opener to see someone so frickin' intelligent accept the data at face value and not question its accuracy or, more importantly, what might have been conveniently omitted due to what was clearly a very politicized topic.

And then there's the issue of time, which I blathered on about in previous threads.

Anyway, isn't this what "discussion groups" are for? I find it all very fascinating and I enjoy his posts, even if they seem pompous and I disagree with them.

I agree. But it's still fun poking at him. He kinda set himself up for it.

Also, it was not just because he said "quite manageable" that we decided to pick on him. It was because he spent the next few months trying to prove his point and belittling anyone who would share a different opinion. Had he been humble and professional about it, I seriously doubt anyone would use this against him.

I don't think this forum as a whole ever have any issue with people with different insights. Heck, the fact that Balgor can still post in here proved my point. But we do have an issue with pompous know-it-alls who disagrees with others in a condescending manner.

So yea, I do believe the phase "quite manageable" will stick for quite some time in this forum.