The Coronavirus Thread

[JimC]

Lift your game, Homicide! Clearly, American gun nuts aren't trying hard enough...

(in a news release, the Council of Malarial Parasites insisted that the blame lay squarely on mosquitos. "Lazy sods, the lot of 'em" said the chief parasite...)

[NineBerry]

Malaria knows a reliable consistent long term growth is more important than a short time hype. Malaria cooperates with global warming to increase the areas it can spread in the future. The two will be big winners when Corona is long forgotten

[Cunt]

Mosquitos are out here, for the first time today. Right around 10 degrees C.

[Hermit]

Coronavirus passed malaria in mid May as top killer

Cancer and heart failure didn't make it on the list?

[pErvinalia]

They've been classified as Covid deaths. [/Scot Dutchy]

[laklak]

We're doomed.

[Hermit]

They've been classified as Covid deaths. [/Scot Dutchy]

[rainbow]

We're doomed.

Told you.

There is 100% chance of dying of something or other.

[Tero]

Finns eating and getting drunk outside. What will they do when winter comes?
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/in_p ... s/11379392

[Brian Peacock]

We should have done more, admits architect of Sweden's Covid-19 strategy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... rs-tegnell

[Cunt]

Protests don't spread the virus. Seems a dead COVID+ guy (George Floyd) will have his funeral attended by many.

My Mom couldn't visit her brother in palliative care. She also couldn't have a funeral for him.

The ranting and resistance I've heard from Scot Dutchy has earned him some unfair criticism. I wonder if anyone will apologize to him for attacking his doubt of the 'official numbers', when we ALL know the officials have been wrong repeatedly over this.

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals ... 1180-6.pdf

Even the lancet are fucking idiots. At least they admitted it. How much of your beliefs were based on this (now retracted) study of a drug?

How many do you think were rabidly against it ONLY because Trump spoke positively about it?

[Cunt]

I can never remember...is 'Politico' righty-slanted bullshit? Or leftie-slanted bullshit?

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... sts-301534

“We should always evaluate the risks and benefits of efforts to control the virus,” Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, tweeted on Tuesday. “In this moment the public health risks of not protesting to demand an end to systemic racism greatly exceed the harms of the virus.”

I wonder how the math works out. It's not that I distrust health officials when their 'professional opinion' blows with the winds of politics, but I am just curious if there is a 1:1 weighing of deaths, or if it is more about changing the way people feel in their hearts...

But their messages are also confounding to many who spent the spring strictly isolated on the advice of health officials, only to hear that the need might not be so absolute after all. It’s particularly nettlesome to conservative skeptics of the all-or-nothing approach to lockdown, who point out that many of those same public health experts—a group that tends to skew liberal—widely criticized activists who held largely outdoor protests against lockdowns in April and May, accusing demonstrators of posing a public health danger. Conservatives, who felt their own concerns about long-term economic damage or even mental health costs of lockdown were brushed aside just days or weeks ago, are increasingly asking whether these public health experts are letting their politics sway their health care recommendations.

Is the media responsible for a skewed view of events? Well, I guess it is if you believe their business model...

For instance, a widely shared Atlantic article in April framed the decision by Georgia’s GOP governor to relax social-distancing restrictions as an “experiment in human sacrifice.” A month later, Georgia’s daily coronavirus cases have stayed relatively level and it’s not clear whether the rollback led to significant new outbreaks.

I'll apologize right here to Scot Dutchy, for not defending his doubt earlier. For anyone who was certain - lol you fool. Now with the studies being retracted out from under your certainty, will you apologize to SD and take a step back? Or double down and insist that the elites selling these stories (and Tide Laundry Detergent!) have your best interests in mind?

[Hermit]

The ranting and resistance I've heard from Scot Dutchy has earned him some unfair criticism. I wonder if anyone will apologize to him for attacking his doubt of the 'official numbers', when we ALL know the officials have been wrong repeatedly over this.

Even the officials who publish the data know the figures are wrong. I have linked to one example, and I am sure there are more. The inaccuracies generally come down to two factors.
1.) The impossibility of deriving definite figures in the absence of a comprehensive set of tests.
2.) The number of unreported deaths due to the corona virus by people who have died at home or aged care facilities.

Scot Dutchy repeatedly asserted that the number of deaths caused by the virus than reports would have it without ever once backing his assertions up with data. He deserves no apology.

[Cunt]

The ranting and resistance I've heard from Scot Dutchy has earned him some unfair criticism. I wonder if anyone will apologize to him for attacking his doubt of the 'official numbers', when we ALL know the officials have been wrong repeatedly over this.

Even the officials who publish the data know the figures are wrong. I have linked to one example, and I am sure there are more. The inaccuracies generally come down to two factors.
1.) The impossibility of deriving definite figures in the absence of a comprehensive set of tests.
2.) The number of unreported deaths due to the corona virus by people who have died at home or aged care facilities.

Scot Dutchy repeatedly asserted that the number of deaths caused by the virus than reports would have it without ever once backing his assertions up with data. He deserves no apology.

lol

Trump was right about HCQ. Many idiots fell for a (new retracted) lancet study which agreed with their Trumphate.

Examples of such abound, but they bounce off those who are pre-programmed to react to Trump.

[NineBerry]

Trump was right about HCQ. Many idiots fell for a (new retracted) lancet study which agreed with their Trumphate.

Examples of such abound, but they bounce off those who are pre-programmed to react to Trump.

No, he wasn't right. All major studies so far don't show any benefits of the h. Retracting a study that has technical problems doesn't mean that the opposite of that study's outcome is true.