The reliable data is coming from our CNN and others.
I’ve been saying similar things.
Improved data over time will tell if we over- or under-reacted.
You mean rando dude on Twitter or nutcase in the comments of a YouTube video doesnt count as “data”?
We can’t just do nothing because information is lacking.
Social distancing and self quarantine of the elderly are a reasonable measure until the picture becomes clearer.
This damn bug manifests itself with a cough and a temperature. That's all the super clues we have right now.
As Dr. Fauci has explained, in any pandemic you are always basing tomorrow’s decisions on yesterday’s data.
Also, “fog of war”.
Well doesn’t this make my heart proud...I posted this earlier today...
The problem with data is the PhDs who flaunt it make the ignorant assumption that the data is good. Usually, it is not. Data crunchers, scientists, analysts, usually have no street smarts, no understanding of how a paycheck is derived, where money actually comes from, how customer behaviors are studied, normal life stuff. No, instead, they take their data prima facie, and move on...multivariate analysis (as an e.g.), etc. That’s not the real world. Taking into account count the Chinese migrant workers in the northern Italy leather industry would have been a wee bit important. Single payor healthcare system in Italy. Deaths in Italy, avg age 81. I’ll take my 21 yr old budding chemical engineer son’s street smart understanding of the world over 99.9% of PhDs’ anytime. My 18 year old even challenges him in that category. My to also don’t have a hidden agenda.
Please think about those words.
It became known somewhere in the January/February time slot and OUR President hopped right ON it and the rest of the world at least considered it.
Within a week or two the alarm went out ... "WASH YER FRIKKIN' HANDS" ... and assuming most people already did and the others started to, either the advice/alarm/RX was incorrect, or the panic had to be escalated.
Because if washing is what all it takes, and old/vulnerable people have been identified ( and I can tell you, that at 72, my kids are calling me and a bunch of et cetera's ) ....
So ..... how can this be "As It Takes Hold" ?
It should be, .. "As it's winding down"
A MUCH BETTER solution would have been to order the elderly to shelter in place and to restrict visitation since they are the most vulnerable.
The rest of us should have been made aware, but we go on with our lives. Instead we have destruction of the economy and people’s lives. Regular citizens who want to go out and about could be jailed. It’s sickening.
Say it isn’t so!!
We have enough data to make semi-educated decisions on how to proceed. China’s numbers, are well, ChiCom BS. Italy? Let’s hope that’s not us.
South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore are not applicable models for us to use, as we still have a slight amount of privacy left. Those places have cultures that value security over privacy.
Germany has tested widely, and has few deaths.
Social distancing will help stop some spread of this, but it is an aerosol. This explains why there are limits on how many people can gather in one place, for now. Social distancing now can hopefully prevent full scale quarantine later.
I think as our testing widens, we will not only have more quality data, but we will also see how ludicrous China has been.
We are in the prologue to this book.
I spent 25 years watching PHD physicists base experiments on data that agreed with their preconceptions.
“ But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco.”
Roger that.
Many pedaling in the hysteria reside on Free Republic. Stunning to see the stripping of personal and economic freedoms by our politicians, and many on this site being perfectly ok with it.
Come on man. Tom Hanks and his wife are going to be okay! Seriously, how come the media is not reporting this? Is it because that kind of good news does not fit their template of panic pushing? I thought liberals worshiped celebrities.
maybe the lack of testing is deliberate....TPTB KNOW what vast testing will show.....instead, obfuscate and close the country down.....
Yep - as panic increases, some opt to take truly draconian measures and others are forced to follow suit so the lawyers don’t eat them up in the aftermath....
He makes an interesting point about keeping the schools open so that kids, who are less affected by this virus, can help develop herd immunity. Also, they will have less contact with elderly relatives.