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Re:Has the Covid-19 response gone too far? by inferiorhuman on Thursday March 19, 2020 @09:21PM (#22633619)
In epidemiology, accurately estimating, say, case fatality rates is notoriously difficult - especially in the middle (or the beginning!) of an epidemic. Given the issues we're all familiar with surrounding the lack of testing, this should come as no surprise.

So then why stir up shit right now? It's reckless at best. People are already downplaying the severity as best they can.

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Re:Has the Covid-19 response gone too far? by logjammin on Thursday March 19, 2020 @09:29PM (#22633653)
Calling for repeated random draws of a country's population and testing everyone in that draw is stirring shit up?
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Re:Has the Covid-19 response gone too far? by inferiorhuman on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:58PM (#22634235)
Trying to estimate if we're overreacting at the beginning/middle of a pandemic is absolutely trying to stir shit up. We can't reasonably know until much closer to the end.
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