Fair enough... but everyone I know is self isolating (none is infected). Most folks are self isolating. I'm sure.
That has generally been the case with all proposed disease cures. But John P.A. Ioannidis, professor of medicine, of epidemiology and population health, of biomedical data science, and of statistics at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford’s Meta-Research Innovation Center has a different take on things. I heard an interview with him tonight in which he predicted a cure within a year of the discovery of this particular virus. Whether he knows what he is talking about or not, I don't have a clue, but by virtue of his title and position, I would have to defer at least somewhat to his credibility. He was definitely not a particularly charismatic person in his interview, but how many people in his position are? LOL At any rate, he has also written some very interesting, and I am sure highly controversial, thoughts about the current crisis. I urge you and everybody else to read it and make of it what you will --- https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17...e-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/
Be careful, my friend, if Super's account can get banned or whatever the hell happened to it for simply posting a copied sarcastic remark in the "wrong thread", then you could get the same treatment for calling names.
BTW, I hope you will read the link I posted above. I think you will find total agreement with what the professor says.
Oh, I agree, but you are not a moderator, and they DO do strange things at times.
I was listening to a research doc on the radio this evening & he was discussing how existing coronavirus drugs are about 80% effective at keeping the virus from killing the inform but the medical community basically needed to be shamed into using what they had because nobody has done 100% testing. You know, you can’t use a drug unless there’s exhaustive testing. Well if 1,000 people would have died & this results in only 200 dying, well WTF are they thinking? I can’t understand the mentality of these types of brainiacs.
Did you read the link I posted? The Stanford professor didn't address that, but he did address the mentality of the "brainiacs" throughout the world.
Yes, I did. It cites numerous examples of why we need data. Well you don’t have it. In my old line of work we called it seasoned military judgment. You know, when some group of dudes lobs an RPG at you it’s reasonable to conclude they’re not friendly. I didn’t need some intel analyst to collect me a bunch of data to declare them hostile. Same goes for the Wuhan coronavirus bioterror weapon. You can figure out if the mortality rate is .4%, .6% or 1.2% later on, it’s barely significant and by the time you got the data the damage would have been done.
What's interesting about the "bioterror weapon" concept is that China has, and still does, refuse to release pertinent information on what has been happening in that country, as well as statements by some doctors in that country that somehow slipped through to the West.
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