still the most important piece which should be read by everyone:
17 Mar: StatNews: A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data
By John P.A. Ioannidis
(John P.A. Ioannidis is 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)
The data collected so far on how many people are infected and how the epidemic is evolving are utterly unreliable…
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/
Wikipedia: John Ioannidis
In addition, he has pioneered the field of meta-research (research on research). He has shown that much of the published research does not meet good scientific standards of evidence.
Ioannidis studies scientific research itself, especially in clinical medicine and the social sciences. He is one of the most-cited scientists in literature. His 2005 paper “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” is the most downloaded paper in the Public Library of Science, and has the highest number of Mendeley readers across all science.”…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ioannidis
Excellent article.
Thank you for posting.
This is my BIGGEST worry. Are we really destroying our country’s economy for something that MAY be as bad as the Spanish Flu?
Remember, with the Spanish Flu, it was mostly the young that died. With the Chinese Flu, it is with the elderly.
I don’t want anyone to die, but I fear by killing our economies, there may be much more destruction and death indefinitely.