07-05-2020, 12:08 PM
(07-04-2020, 11:17 PM)BostonCard Wrote: Goose, the graphic says that this was “ranked by physicians from the TMA COVID-19 task force”. In other words, this is expert opinion, and thus, though hopefully informed by data, the ranking was not based solely on data.
BC
I am not sure I would have as much confidence in what the TMA COVID-19 task force believes to be true. While I am sure this is their "best guess" I think there is lts of public confusion already on what is a fact and what is an opinion. This ranking is an opinion. It is an informed opinion (to an unknown degree, because I have no idea at all how "good" the TMA COVID-19 task force is), but it isn't a fact and it isn't directly supported by data. Next thing we know, we will hear somebody saying you are "denying science" if you question that sitting in a doctors waiting room is safer than going to the beach. That is why I was interested in the methodology of this ranking. I doubt there is any data available that measures the incidence of contracting COVID-19 in a doctors office. So how do they know?