What a kidder!Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
The false positive rate was 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Free everyone else.
This is what should’ve happened from the beginning in a free country. At least that should’ve happened after the five weeks for “flattening the curve”and “slowing the spread”. People could’ve made their own decisions about the amount of risk they wish to take, especially if our “experts” had actually informed us of which comorbidities were causing the poor outcomes. Instead there is so much misinformation and disinformation.