‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona influencers

Re:‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona i... by tomxor on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @06:44PM (#22622181)

> At the start, the "Many thousands of mildly symptomatic infections aren't recorded" claim had plausibility. Now it needs to die in fire.

Do you have an argument against this other than die in a fire? In the UK the government is literally advising people to NOT call the NHS if they suspect they are infected but stay home and self isolate unless they become severely ill and cannot cope. It's pretty reasonable to assume the denominator is much larger from this behaviour.

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Re:‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona i... by beaunative on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:45PM (#22634105)

We don't need to take UK's number. There are whole pack of other countries using much more active methods to combat this virus.

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Re:‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona i... by joe_the_user on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @06:57PM (#22622326)

The UK plan is insane and could result in massive deaths. But hopefully will just be rolled once the deaths begin.

You can read the discussion of the reasons to be pretty certain of the 1%+ fatality rate and how that's catastrophic on the rest of my thread and in more detail elsewhere. As to the UK plan, look here:

"I'm an epidemiologist, when I heard the UK plan, I thought it was satire":

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/epidem...

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