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Coronavirus
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NT now closing it's borders to all visitors, including Aussie citizens from other states.
Korea was infected the same day as the US. 158 deaths.
They are talking 200k in the US now.
Nowhere have I said the US has handled it well or defended Trump's management of it. Might even have been first to point out they're headed for disaster. Will just mention that when Trump restricted flights from China in early Feb, the Democrats labelled it fear-mongering and xenophobic. But there's a politics thread for that.
An interesting article on Italy's high numbers. In a nut shell:
"Only the most severe cases are being tested, added Galli, and not the entire population -- which in turn, skews the death rate."
"Only the most severe cases are being tested, added Galli, and not the entire population -- which in turn, skews the death rate."
Mortality rate above 11% = system overwhelmed. Nobody has claimed it's 110 times as deadly as the flu. Must be rampant among the general population.
If 80,000 septics died of the flu in their 2017 / 2018 flu season then it would be completely rational to think that 100,000 septics might die from a similar type virus that there's no vaccine for.
10671 flu pneumonia victims in Oz 2015 / 2017 and there's not a squeak from anyone yet so far less than 20 coroner victims n we've virtually shut the country down.
PETER HITCHENS: This Great Panic is foolish, yet our freedom is broken
PETER HITCHENS: As I watched the Prime Minister order mass house arrest on Monday night, I felt revulsion, anger and grief - as anyone brought up when this was a free and well-governed...
True, however but even when you look at those blue, yellow and green bars they are similar or dropping too. The lack of exponential growth certainly shows we have stopped the spike, now its about ensuring that those blocks decline in size.
Time for sanctions against countries that run these markets (not just China). Otherwise it will happen again.
Watching Four Corners Series 2020 Pandemic in iview
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/four-corners/series/2020/video/NC2003H009S00
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/four-corners/series/2020/video/NC2003H009S00
So much for China banning the sale and consumption of wild animals
In scientific discourse "anecdotes" are generally not considered "data". My point was simply that this case is a data point. Anecdotes are usually not confirmable and often devoid of data. The news story may well be "anecdotal" but the case it is reporting on is "data".
Personally I would appreciate if Gia and yourself took the chat into a different thread.
Can I suggest a 'Economic theory and appreciation' or 'My Dad knows bigger economics than your Dad'
Personally I would appreciate if Gia and yourself took the chat into a different thread.
Can I suggest a 'Economic theory and appreciation' or 'My Dad knows bigger economics than your Dad'
Yeah, fair enough, after all, the debating stopped a while ago.
I'll just ignore his next content-free post.
Still find the numbers in the US a concern, would be good to know their rate of testing as the numbers rise but we don't know whether they have got to the point of testing a lot of people.
DS
