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To: cherry

“and as testing increases, and cases increase, the CFR will drop dramatically”

If the case count increases dramatically. However, you can’t calculate CFR using unresolved cases. The Deaths-to-Cases Ratio would certainly decrease with more cases found.

“I kind of get the impression that some people WANT to be proven right about the CFR being high...”

I see certain FReepers forcing others into a position that might seem that way, but it is problematic to offer false hopes (as in wishful thinking and optimistic hypotheses without substantiation) and call others out as death-cultists for not buying into them. There is a lot of criticism of FReepers by the rainbows-and-unicorns crowd.


77 posted on 03/18/2020 9:47:46 PM PDT by calenel (Don't panic. Prepare and be vigilant.)
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To: calenel
There is a lot of criticism of FReepers by the rainbows-and-unicorns crowd.

You're right. There's also some rumor mongering - the "I heard this from a friend of a brother" sort of thing - on everything from road closures, to martial law to you-name-it - on various COVID-19 threads.

And some of the questions and skepticism for those things is not from the rainbows-and-unicorns crowd.

90 posted on 03/18/2020 10:16:59 PM PDT by Fury
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