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Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by hnrodey on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:51AM (#25290030)
Censorship with my site has been off the charts. Definitely does not fit the public narrative.
Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by Erik816 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:56AM (#25290103)
People not agreeing with you is not censorship, or at least not the kind anyone should worry about. Let us know if the government has restricted your speech in any way.
Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by zests on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:09AM (#25290293)
Where in the definition of censorship does it say government?
Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by zests on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:08PM (#25293993)
GP comment edited and make my comment irrelevant. Please ignore.
Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by hnrodey on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:00AM (#25290157)
Fair enough on the censorship term - no one from the government has reached out to me yet ; )
Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by phonethrowaway on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:28AM (#25290577)
Maybe because you need to learn basic statistics... You need to compare the number of tests to results, not the total population where nobody is getting tested. C'mon man...

I don't disagree with the spirit of self directed data exploration, but you need to be careful.

Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by hnrodey on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:34AM (#25290669)
Test positivity is part of the story, but not the story.

If you are not getting tested it’s almost certainly because you’re not actively sick and/or been exposed.

There’s value, in my opinion, to knowing how people people have not have a positive test. This does not imply COVID negative.

I also make the assumption that once you have taken a test you quarantine like a responsible person.

I would say that the amount of people who tested positive is roughly the same as the amount of people who are contagious yet don’t know.

Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by tinix on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:53PM (#25297649)
> I would say that the amount of people who tested positive is roughly the same as the amount of people who are contagious yet don’t know.

Based on what? Do you have anything to demonstrate that assumption and back it up with facts?

Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by hnrodey on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:29AM (#25315221)
Facts? I don't have anything cite other than common sense.

We know that case counts generally do not have wild swings. In other words, prior performance indicates future behavior. If the two week moving average of positive case counts is 500 - then we can roughly predict what to expect the following day for positive case counts plus or minus the current infection trend.

My experience has been that people who simply get tested are already isolating/quarantining. That has been my approach. So if 500 people tested positive then I generally believe those 500 people isolate themselves and they are no longer infecting people because of their quarantine. Then 500ish people show up tomorrow to take their place.

That's my point. Once people are identified as sick then they aren't spreading the disease because of "hey don't be a giant dickhead".