[arthurus]

Have it your way. I am betting that my own observations hereabouts are correct. What I see at the shipyard seems best explained by that. It is mostly mild but when it is not mild it is pretty dramatic. I think the first wave here was in late February because a couple of families returned from vacations in China about then. This town is a smallcity and there is no large city within a hundred miles so it is pretty easy to keep track once one starts to notice things. I am pretty sure an antibodies test applied to the whole population would show that this thing has infected a third or a half of everyone. Remember SARs in 2003. A Turkish village made headlines because a dozen or so people died of it there. Later, maybe a year, maybe two, an American researcher went to that village and tested everyone in the village for antibodies and asked the relevant questions and concluded that the entire village had been infected. The ones who died made the news and the flaming statistics.

[calenel]

It’s funny that you assert your own observations as paramount to the actual known and documented data, then cite a cherry-picked instance of a less lethal disease from some other country known to doctor their stats, and leave off the population of the village to boot.

Confirmation-bias and solipsism and a disregard for the welfare of others is a really bad combination, bro.

[riri]

A Turkish village made headlines because a dozen or so people died of it there. Later, maybe a year, maybe two, an American researcher went to that village and tested everyone in the village for antibodies and asked the relevant questions and concluded that the entire village had been infected. The ones who died made the news and the flaming statistics

That is interesting.

[ETCM]

Remember SARs in 2003. A Turkish village made headlines because a dozen or so people died of it there.

Do you have a link to that? I haven't seen any reports of cases of SARS in Turkey.