[Gay State Conservative]

In the coming months there will be charts,graphs,Excel files issued by Harvard,Columbia,Hopkins,Mayo Clinic,etc with detailed analysis.Age at death,pre existing conditions,nursing home yes/no,etc,etc,etc.

They will be interesting to see.

[ClearCase_guy]

Yes. I’m hoping that one of the outcomes of this will be a full set of tools (statistical analysis) that can be used to gauge a pandemic. Of course, we have a lot of those already, but I have to think they are insufficient. A lot of “experts” seemed to operate on guesswork this time around.

And the discussion of the “denominator” — when can we know how many have been exposed to a pathogen? Can we really gauge the danger of a pathogen if we don’t know how many people have been exposed? The numbers on rate of reproduction and mortality of COVID-19 seemed to be all over the place.

I think we need a common understanding that there are some things we can know, and some things we cannot know. And panicking over the things we cannot know might be a poor strategy next time around.