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RE: Restrictions to continue! - 'elepaio - 11-29-2021 Try harder Tom RE: Restrictions to continue! - TomK - 11-29-2021 (11-29-2021, 07:34 AM)elepaio pid= Wrote:Try harder Tom How should I try harder? Write some nonsense that only you might understand? Jeez, PW has been taken over by kooks. RE: Restrictions to continue! - randomq - 11-29-2021 Vaccines have never been 100% effective. You guys get hung up on the weirdest details... RE: Restrictions to continue! - Wao nahele wahine - 11-29-2021 And...like a big old breath of hot air, TomK is back. Efficacy: the ability to produce a desired or intended result. Definition courtesy of Oxford Languages. eta - Efficacy is not a measurement. However, efficacy can be measured. RE: Restrictions to continue! - Wao nahele kane - 11-29-2021 (11-29-2021, 06:57 AM)TomK Wrote:No Tom, I don't understand your idiotic inability to understand what a strawman is.(11-29-2021, 06:49 AM)Wao nahele kane Wrote:(11-29-2021, 06:16 AM)TomK Wrote:Tom,(11-29-2021, 05:31 AM)Wao nahele kane Wrote:(11-29-2021, 01:21 AM)HereOnThePrimalEdge Wrote: So the data you saw is no surprise. A strawman is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false one. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a strawman". HOTPE essentially claimed the variant was not brought in by tourist because he didn't recall an increased infection rate of those working in the tourist industry. I addressed his claim directly by proposing a set of implausible but humorous ways the variant may have been introduced if not by tourist. That is not a strawman. A strawman would have been me responding to him by zeroing in on the CDC and discrediting some sort of situation completely unrelated to the discussion or if he had cited an article, attacking the author instead of the articles subject. So I addressed the heart of his argument and was facetious about it. RE: Restrictions to continue! - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 11-29-2021 Efficacy Words can have multiple definitions, meanings, etc Words can change meaning over time, without the change being conspiratorial, usually it’s through common usage The same word can be a verb & a noun or other part of speech Puna is a district in Hawaii AND a city in India. I’ve been to both places and surprisingly they’re quite different! RE: Restrictions to continue! - eightfingers2.0 - 11-29-2021 Variants: Why the CDC skipped the Greek letters nu and xi. NU, because they didn’t want to name a variant that sounded like “new”. XI, because they didn’t want to offend China. RE: Restrictions to continue! - TomK - 11-29-2021 (11-29-2021, 07:49 AM)Wao nahele kane Wrote: So I addressed the heart of his argument and was facetious about it. Yes, you did and used a straw man to do so. I'm glad you now admit your whole argument was facetious. RE: Restrictions to continue! - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 11-29-2021 HOTPE essentially claimed the variant was not brought in by tourist Again, not what I said. You said there was correlation and causation that the COVID spike in Hawaii corresponded to a change in rules for mainland arrivals, which is not bore out statistically. I said that was less likely than the delta variant being 2X more transmissible. You asked earlier if you could clear anything else up. Yes, if you’re going to argue with people posting here you could go back and clear up the changes you’ve made to comments from some of us, which you’ve altered to make it appear your points have more, what’s the word I’m looking for? Efficacy? RE: Restrictions to continue! - Wao nahele kane - 11-29-2021 (11-29-2021, 08:06 AM)TomK Wrote:Says the master of the strawman as he engages in strawman after strawman.(11-29-2021, 07:49 AM)Wao nahele kane Wrote: So I addressed the heart of his argument and was facetious about it. You now have a new nickname, Strawman. |