Epidemiologist Gives the World a Reality Check About Wuhan Coronavirus

Townhall.com ^ | September 18, 2020 | Katie Pavlich

[Kaslin]

During an interview with the BBC this week, Epidemiologist Sunetra Gupta reminded the audience that Wuhan Coronavirus is not a deadly disease for large swaths of the population and recommended allowing most people to get back to their lives. Further, she recommended mass testing be stopped and focused instead on vulnerable populations -- specifically on individuals who regularly interact with people who are high risk. 

"It’s not deadly in a very large section of the population, so that presents us with this workable solution where by we can stop testing them, let them get on with their lives, let them go to school and receive something that incredibly valuable to them which is education and training. Let people keep jobs, let them feed their children. Let's preserve all of these things. Let the arts continue, or resume and flourish. We can do all this and by aggressively protecting, I think maybe shielding isn't the right word, aggressively protecting those who are are indeed vulnerable to this, which of course can be very deadly in a certain sector of the population," Dr. Gupta said.  "The good news is we know now who is vulnerable to a very large degree. We know that."

"We know who is vulnerable and we know about the enormous costs of some of these measures," she continued. "We can balance these by using our tests to find creative solutions to protect the vulnerable. Not just shield them and shut them up and box them away but ways of protecting them by testing people who they'll be in contact with and making sure they won't pass the virus onto them by creating the conditions whereby they are at a low risk of contracting this virus which has not diminished in its potency but is currently now held at low risk, but we cannot hold it at low risk without paying these extreme costs." 

“It’s not deadly in a very large section of the population, so that presents us with this workable solution.”

Epidemiologist @SunetraGupta says if the UK is “aggressively protecting” the vulnerable then education, jobs and the arts can resume. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/jA46dT1H3D— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) September 17, 2020

President Trump and members of the White House Wuhan coronavirus task force have offered similar solutions in the United States. 

[caww]

Voice of Reason....

[Fai Mao]

I’ve blowing this horn for months.

Protect the vulnerable, quarantine the sick, and everyone else be careful.

[Lockbox]

In a situation such as this one I like to listen to experts.....

"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say... no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh... depended on the breaks."

Buck Turgidson

[null and void]

“It’s not deadly in a very large section of the population, so that presents us with this workable solution.”

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!

[lizma2]

Just read recently, in the UK, if a patient tested positive for Covid up to 28 days prior to their death they are listed as a Covid death.

[rktman]

Must be another Steve Bannon spokesperson like the scientist "allegedly" from Wuhan that was on Tucker's show the other night. Right? 😷😂👏📴

[mrsmith]

This is a reasonable minimalist approach.
We can do better.
Doing more costs more- in many ways- so only additional efforts with very good payback should be pursued.
There are a few.

[Grampa Dave]

Kaiser health care has in the last few months has evolved from you can’t come into a hospital or clinic unless it is a serious emergency.

To come on in if you have an appointment and you can bring a spouse or family member or ????.

You are now measured electronically/automatically twice at the entrance for any fever.

No fever, you can then go on into the clinic/hospital without an escort.

Since, you don’t have a fever, you go in and to where you have an appointment to see your doctor or whomever your appointment is with. There are no escorts.

Social distancing is practiced and observed while in the hospital/clinic.

So, you only have a non invasive temp check.

Then, while in the hospital/clinic, you practice social distancing.

That is it and no panic nor any other pandemic paranoid BS.

[EEGator]

Just as long as there is no fighting in the War Room.

[Sergio]

bkmk

[Big Red Badger]

“No Fighting in
The War Room!”
.
Seriously
Stop the Lockdowns and
Open the
Schools.
These Petty Tyrants have
Been Unsuccessful and
Exposed.

[lightman]

And ditch the damn [face] diapers!

[Big Red Badger]

Those Stupid
“Stand Here” stickers!
.
I’m Ready for the
Zyklon Showers!

[lightman]

Whenever I see that signage (and “be safe, wear a mask”) I am struck with SOSI

S udden
O nset
S elective
I lliteracy

[Big Red Badger]

Imagine the trauma kids
are set up with now,
Masks,
Handwashing,
No touching and
Stay away from hospitals!
.
Thanks Democrats.