Quote Originally Posted by burlap View Post
The claim, if I read right, was that heat and cold will "drive people inside". The counter claim was "no evidence". If there is "no evidence", it seems far fetched to expect written, documented evidence.

If the claim is "it will make people go indoors, therefore, due to it spreading easier indoors, it will cause cases to jump" then I don't know how you expect evidence for that as we haven't had a summer with covid...

Also, it isn't the responsibility of the counter claimant in that instance to have to be the bearer of affirmation. The original claim should be supported or not made as an assumption.
I could be misunderstanding your post (and forgive me if so), but you seem to have reduced my comment to requiring "evidence," including future evidence. All I requested is that we provide each other "evidence OR explanation to support their stance" so we can learn from each other. The original post was a reasonable contribution to the discussion about something that could happen. The response offered neither evidence nor reason for shooting down the other post. That was my complaint. I'd love to learn why soonerguru thinks the post was unreasonable or incorrect, but they offered nothing. It's intellectually (and literally) lazy.

I'm not trying to follow the rules of a debate team competition. Just asking that posters offer some evidence OR reasoning for shooting down someone else's post.

Quote Originally Posted by soonerguru View Post
This is what I was trying to say, which Pete said better. I didn’t mean to be harsh to C_M at all. Sorry, Dan, and more importantly, C_M.
I appreciate you saying that. You don't owe me an apology and there's no hard feelings. All I was trying to point out is that I wanted to understand you're reasoning. As I've said before, I love this forum when I learn so I try to fight for that spirit in it.