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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by easytiger on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:46AM (#22545303)
Have you thought about inverting your thinking? Every pandemic this century ended up being a damp squib despite WHO et al promising doomsday.
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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by eropple on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @10:06AM (#22545937)
Did they end up being a "damp squib", or were corrective and protective measures implemented to slow them sufficiently so as to control them before they became endemic?
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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by Jill_the_Pill on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @10:55AM (#22546317)
It may be that when the Boy Cried Wolf, the wolf didn't show up precisely because the villagers had turned out with torches and successfully scared it away, unseen.
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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by easytiger on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @11:18AM (#22546531)
Damp squib
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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by eropple on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @11:31AM (#22546636)
And your rationale for that characterization is...?
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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by easytiger on Thursday March 12, 2020 @07:10PM (#22563012)
The WHO predicted that 150 million people would be killed by avian flu [1]. Nothing happened. They predicted 750,000 people would die in the UK, it was more like 200. For swine flu it was minimum possible deaths of 11k but up to 70k. It was more like 400. They got upset when people wouldn't use their case fatality rates which turned out very wrong. Over half a million people died of flu related deaths last year. Don't recall reading a single news article about it

1, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/emergency....

2, https://jech.bmj.com/content/62/6/555.abstract

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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by throwaway2048 on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:23PM (#22548669)
He is all over these threads downplaying the seriousness of this virus, best to just ignore him.
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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by eropple on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:50PM (#22549779)
I'm aware. That's why I responded to him. Because it's better to confront this kind of mendacity.
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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by admax88q on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @09:47AM (#22545780)
Was it the WHO promising doomsday? Or the media reporting on it?
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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by easytiger on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @11:18AM (#22546526)
The WHO
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