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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

To be fair, I think it holds true for any head of department of health (or whatever they're called) - that's a position that calls for organizational skills and not a medical doctorate. In the same way my project manager doesn't answer questions about clustered datastorage, that's what he has people like me for.
However, leading JFKJrs department also calls for common sense and skepticism towards conspiracy theories, two qualities he severely lacks. But at least he's right in that particular statement.

[–] Kraiden@kbin.earth 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That's like saying he shouldn't be expected to give advice on Seroconversion kinetics*. You're right, but it's also not really the point.

He, like your manager, is responsible for taking the knowledge of the "engineers" and turning that into practical advice and/or legislation for the public.

Which he is not doing... Which has resulted in a body count... Which should at the very least cost him his job...

But if anyone thinks that's going to happen, they've not been paying attention.

*(I don't know what that is btw, that comes from wikipedia. It's some technical thing to do with vaccines)

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes, that's pretty much the 2nd half of my comment.

Also, my understanding is that seroconversion kinetics is about how fast your body starts making antibodies, how strong the resp9nse is and how it changes over time.

[–] Kraiden@kbin.earth 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Lol, that was maybe a bad example then. I was just looking for a technical term that the general public wouldn't need to care about, but that all sounds like reasonably important information

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

You give me too much credit. I got curious and started googling, lol.