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Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by jachee on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:15PM (#24165319)
You're right.

The bars should be closed, too.

We should be spending the entire defense budget on paying for people to stay home, stay safe, and to get them what they need; as well as funding as much scientific research as feasible to fight this clear and present danger to our lives and livelihoods.

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Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by ps747 on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:35PM (#24165684)
That's just not true. The CDC estimates that between 10% and 70% of of cases are asymptomatic with a best estimate of 40%. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

As we saw in Italy and New York, COVID-19 has the potential to overwhelm hospitals. Officially, almost 170,000 Americans have died. NYTimes estimates that COVID-19 already caused over 200,000 deaths by comparing against the expected number of deaths if we weren't in a pandemic. So yes, COVID-19 is a clear and present danger to our lives.

Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by Wowfunhappy on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:10PM (#24165568)
Even the very highest estimates of asymptomatic infection don't put it anywhere near that high, unless you're talking about only the first few days or some such.
Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by cbsks on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:08PM (#24165554)
> asymptomatic for 99.9% of the population

Source? I didn’t think it was nearly that high.

Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by jachee on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:01AM (#24165812)
Yeah, you need to stop spreading misinformation.

This doesn't look like a "99.9% asymptomatic" virus:

https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386...

And that's one of the MOST conservative media outlets in the world.

Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by alentist on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:44AM (#24166017)
> that's one of the MOST conservative media outlets in the world

That is far from true.

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/financial-times-media-b...

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/financial-times/

Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by jachee on Sunday August 16, 2020 @01:02AM (#24175303)
Sorry, I meant the traditional definition of "conservative" with regard to media, which is to say ensuring that only unbiased facts are reported as best as possible.