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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by guscost on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:29AM (#26555448)
I have been saying this for many years, and have been condescended to a lot (by friends, even) for saying it.

We clearly don’t have the faintest understanding of the long-term dynamics of something like SARS, when all the conventional model parameters go to such extremes. And when the disease is evolving. And when people retreat inside and stop getting sun. And so on.

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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by valarauko on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:33AM (#26556208)
>I have been saying this for many years, and have been condescended to a lot (by friends, even) for saying it.

What exactly have you been saying?

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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by _nalply on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:43PM (#26557073)
He maintains that he has been laughed off for his wild conspiracy theories.
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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by valarauko on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:17PM (#26558290)
I'm unclear what the specific claim that he's been making for years exactly is - that coronaviruses have a morbidity profile similar to COVID, from the GP? Or that we can't believe long term dynamics for disease models because the parameters go to extremes?
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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by guscost on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:26PM (#26563235)
Paraphrasing: “The academics who claim that we narrowly avoided a SARS/etc holocaust, have a fatal conflict of interest, and are completely full of shit.”
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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by valarauko on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @10:37AM (#26567782)
I'm confused - this sounds like an entirely different claim than your original comment. Could you elaborate?
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