Re:Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks
by goalieca on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @08:03AM
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So we’ve never done a lockdown before. We sort of knew there would be harms based on decades of research we’ve done on substance abuse, domestic violence, cancer, heart disease, etc. But there we go, running the worlds largest experiment on social distancing to try and find out which measures work or not. Except we didn’t even get good controls for it. Germany is doing that now apparently.
edit: how many papers are out there trying to quantify all of these measures? There's dozens of published papers and hundreds of pre-prints. How can we view this as anything but an experiment!?
edit: how many papers are out there trying to quantify all of these measures? There's dozens of published papers and hundreds of pre-prints. How can we view this as anything but an experiment!?