OT response to GD's post
In other words you feel that other posters should unconditionally accept what you say. You don't like it when your views are challenged and you don't feel that you should have to provide evidence to back up your assertions. I didn't question your credentials. How could I when you hadn't provided any, and you avoided the opportunity so to do.
Earlier you stated that virions up somebody's nose that had failed to enter the hosts cells were sufficient to both infect another person and trigger a covid test. Chris, a medical consultant, certainly refuted the last of these assertions. Can you not see why I asked you for your medical credentials and why? You could just be bullshitting for all I know. I told you that I am a layman, which means that you can take my viriological assertions with a massive dose of scepticism and I am willing to be contradicted by others who hold some expertise in the subject. I'm trying to work out if that includes you but for some bizarre reason you won't tell me and you are casting this as bullying. It isn't.
It is...
When you question someone's posts validity based on whether they are in a position to be believed or not, then it is bullying, I'm afraid.
The reason most of us use a nickname of some sort is because we don't want to disclose who we are with the rest of the world... there are plenty of reasons for that. I don't know who you are, other than you wear a pink YACF jersey, and frankly I don't care who you are. If I did, I would ask you privately.
The consequence is that you have to accept that you are talking about viruses with someone who could be an epidemiologist or a carpenter or anything in between and that's the way fora work.
Whether I have an association with the NHS or not is immaterial. As a matter of fact, I have spent most of my life in science, but never had to deal with viruses... where do I stand in your scale? Probably somewhere in between a doctor and a builder? Would that validate my reasoning or would that mean it's worthless? Or maybe somewhere in between... does it matter? It's a place for conversation and discussion, it's not a place to create knowledge.
This is no place to discuss our role in society... unless someone decides that they are quite happy for everybody to know their role...