I didn't suggest an economic incentive existed. As you correctly quoted me, I asked if there was one. Asking if there is a god does not proclaim that God exists. It does ask a question to ponder if there is one, and suggests the possibility of a god.
I didn't proclaim there is an incentive. I was searching for a reasoned explanation for what I saw. I don't know what you are searching for other than defending some viewpoint. I am not attacking your view, whatever that might be, of a COVID number or whatever else you are defending. Again, whatever. I don't even care about what you, or Chuck, or Jaime think about COVID. I like them alot, but I just don't care about COVID anymore. Maybe it still cares about me. What I do care about is someone claiming I am pushing a conspiracy theory. The extent of what I said was to suggest a reasonable explanation for a fact. I could be wrong. I don't think I said "I know there is some incentive" I posed the question. Are we too fragile to be exposed to questions? Lastly, I guess you are an English teacher. I am an accountant by training. I like to find the economic driver which I believe lies behind most decisions. I didn't say all, but most. Since I don't have a PHD in English I won't debate if your method to get my point across is more clear. Seems pretty similar to me. On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 9:01 AM Carl Peterson <cpeter...@portnetworks.com> wrote: > Lewis, It seems that you are still implying that there is some economic > incentive to report more positive cases. As far as I can tell, this is not > the case whatsoever. That may not be your intent, but the structure of > your sentence "I merely quesited about there being some misguided economic > incentive, ..." vs something like " I merely quesited whether there may be > some misguided economic incentive, ..." suggests that the incentive > exists. > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 8:26 AM Lewis Bergman <lewis.berg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> <RANT> >> WTF don't you people understand? How many times do I have to state I am >> NOT trying to state, imply, or propagate that there is a conspiracy to >> inflate, deflate, or otherwise misreport the numbers? >> >> I'll state again, for I hope the very last time: >> Anecdotal information I have personal knowledge of to be true, that there >> is over reporting in this oh so tiny subset of data. I am sure there is >> misreporting of positive cases as negative. I merely quesited about there >> being some misguided economic incentive, put in place with the best >> intentions but possibly mistakenly incentivizing testing facilities, to >> report positive cases. I have no idea why such a policy would be put in >> place. >> >> Whatever, this whole thing has just driven people crazy. >> >> If you think you are gonna get sick, stay isolated. If your grandmother >> is fragile, she should stay isolated. If you are healthy, or just don't >> care anymore, do whatever the $%@& you want. >> </RANT> >> Other than that, it is going to be mighty hot out there today. >> >> >> -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- Lewis Bergman 325-439-0533 Cell
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