Posted on 04/09/2020 1:31:25 PM PDT by grundle
There was no additional decline after lockdowns were implemented. The whole rationale for lockdowns is to #StopTheSpread better than through social distancing.
Perish the thought that people might look at this elite research team’s findings and ask their elected leaders to justify life-ruining, economy-destroying, health-worsening lockdowns with actual evidence that they #SlowTheSpread by themselves, not just piggybacking on less draconian measures.
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Maybe a bit lower death rate. At best probably kept the hospitals from being overrun because people were in panic mode.
They found neither to be true.
Wu Flu models have proven to be even less accurate than climate change models.
(Didn’t know that was possible.)
I’m wondering what we are going to do with 100k unused respiratory machines. And what does it cost to maintain and keep them calibrated? What a cluster f*.
There is still time for the hymalayas to melt this year, as predicted.. don’t give up. ( actually they revised that just like the wuflu).
Might want to check this out. Destroyed our economy for this.
These are the same people that find no statistical benefit in gun ownership and that were previously telling us that we needed to go vegan for health due to ‘surveys’ like this.
I would take this announcement with an entire truckload of salt.
How many have been going on more than 2 weeks? Given the incubation time it will take a while to actually see effect.
Trump pushed social distancing. Obviously, these researchers are trying to get Trump.
A different angle on this topic would be compare Sweden to the Czech Republic.
They have similar populations.
Sweden has not done lockdowns.
The Czech Republic has required do-it-yourself masks and lockdowns.
Anyone can compare the numbers for themselves:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
You’ll be able to buy one six month from now for $100 or less.
The truth will never be known. While possibly true, the fact that the virus was allowed to spread previously may be the reason their analysis may be flawed, as well.
In metro areas like NYC, it’s not the hospitals that are overrun. It’s the morgues. It happened in China as well. Outside of metro areas, meh. Not much of a problem.
My theory. If you live in a low populated area, you may get some virus but not enough to get you really sick. It’s enough exposure to build up antibodies. In densely populated areas where people live in large buildings, you get overwhelmed
I am one of your leading FluBros here, and even I have to admit, the logic of that just does not compute.
It’s the subway + no masks that made NYC such a problem.
The metric used is a little hand to understand.
“Mean daily case growth rate” expressed as a percentage. I think that means at the right end of the chart that new cases were still growing at 10% a day (averaged over all the states). But that is inconsistent with the news that new cases are declining, which would be a negative percentage figure. It may be the date of the study — it looks like it ends on April 30.
I look forward to reading the actual paper. Maybe it will be clearer.
It was the flu in December and January...
Lots of test for the flu were coming back negative
We probably have herd immunity...
Orlando FL has 6 million visitors month...
So why not a lot of cases of the Virus..
Well if they tested everybody in Orland it probable be there
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