+100
One professor says half of us will die and another professor says “nah, it’ll be fine but all of your children will be born naked”.
You think?
We might have averted an overrun on hospital beds and staff, and we might have extended the life of the vulnerable a bit, but now the hand of government is considerably stronger, and we just added another trillion to the debt.
He needs to shelter in place because these are just the kind of guys we end up hearing about test Covid-19 positive in less than two weeks time.
Yup. The cure may be worse than the disease if the world’s economy collapses.
But 60% believe we should give up freedom. 60% can’t be wrong .... Right ?
We may have no country to recover to if we have no economy. The cure may be far worse than the disease.
Pretty much he has been saying what a lot of people are saying, “the lack of consistent testing screwed everything up.”
Testing and compliance are what’s working in Korea and Japan.
Bad testing and non compliance is what’s hurting Italy.
They US is more like Italy than the other two.
the biggest question this guy had was "when do the govt entities relax all the restrictions" and I am sooo afraid that its going to be a long time....once they have power, they will not reliquish it.....
I just caught the Mark Levin show while I was out and he was talking about this. The prof is right.
Its like Russian Roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. The odds are with you.
Do you feel lucky, punk?
But it is interesting the infection rate in WA, NY, CA, MA compared to the infection rate in TX, FL, GA, etc.
State Public Health Departments are the main actor in this type of event. The Feds are there to support and respond to the needs of the state Public Health Departments. The Washington Public Health Department and the governor made blunder after blunder.
In every state the Health Departments regulate and license the Nursing Homes. The contro#l the Medicaid that is the #1 source of money for most nursing homes, and certainly for the one North of Seattle. The evidence was clear and they ignored it.
Would you want one of these Blue State governors to run a single payer health system?
Single point of failure - avoid it. The #1 lesson learned from recent events. Single payer creates a single point of failure. Total dependpency on China is a single point of failure.
We survive by having decentralization
Two relevant comments below his statnews.com article, kinda make his point about data. Do we know if the S Korean tests were randomized at all?
(1) ‘In the same article that you use the Diamond Princess cruise ship as a case study for fatality rates, you estimate that 1% of the U.S population might be infected. The Diamond Princess cruise ship saw nearly 25% of the ship’s passengers infected. Perhaps multiple your “lost in the noise” 10,000 influenza-like deaths by 20+.’
(2) ‘Why is this article’s main source of data the Diamond Princess when we have a much, much larger data set in South Korea? As of March 15th, South Korea had tested 248,000 people, and confirmed 8,162 cases, and recorded 75 deaths. That represents a case fatality ratio of 0.9%. If governments should base their policy decisions on a range of reasonable possibilities, it seems like the South Korea example, where they have conducted the most testing, should be the benchmark – not the Diamond Princess.’
He’s right.
I read his piece.
Some fundamentally good points...which fall apart under ridiculous application of details and logical contradictions.
Asteroid impact media: “We are seriously over reacting!”
86% of people infected have no symptoms at all – they are basically immune.
Of the 14% who show symptoms, 82% of those are mild and resolve themselves.
This leaves 14% x 18% = .14 x .18 = .0252 ~ 2.5% who are severe or critical, almost all of whom are elderly and with existing conditions like cancer, leukemia, heart disease, smokers, vapers, emphysema, liver and kidney disease.
About 3 million people die (a little less than 1%) in the United States each year from all causes, mostly elderly again, it doesn’t harm society. So now, at the worst, we may may have 7 million die this year, again mostly elderly, - it will not affect anything to lose these people, they are just dying a little sooner than they would have.
Our government is destroying our economy and society to “protect the vulnerable” – the extra 1.5% who are already sick and would die in a few years anyway.
Our government is yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theatre, when all there is a cigarette smoldering in a corner.
The next thing will be the cancellation of elections to maintain their new dictatorial powers.
More will die from shortages of blood from cancellation of blood drives than will die from the virus – and these deaths will be the young and otherwise healthy – car accidents., etc.
These Criminal Governors must be held accountable!
Closing businesses is a BIG mistake. So far, the percentage of deaths of verified cases is about 01.3. Half of these deaths are people over 60 years old and many 70 and 80 . This virus is no more deadly than past serious epidemics. Sure, it may transmit much faster but is otherwise no more if not less deadly. We are killing the best economy in the world and the Chinese have perpetrated the act. Stop closing down our economy !!!