Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make you happy

Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by wilg on Sunday October 01, 2023 @03:45PM (#37729823)

I'm excited to find out in 20 years what the deal was with Covid once everybody has forgotten all their political opinions.

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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by iwonthecase on Sunday October 01, 2023 @04:14PM (#37730138)

Good luck, there's still academics debating about the 1977 "Russian" flu [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu

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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by Aachen on Sunday October 01, 2023 @06:06PM (#37731372)

> The outbreak in northern China started in May 1977

Coincidence? Do they have a climate conducive to these sorts of viruses combined with a large enough population to make it likely they get infected first or is this my selection bias in noticing when it says "started in China" versus any other country?

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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by philjohn on Sunday October 01, 2023 @06:39PM (#37731672)

Large population that lives very close to natural reservoirs for viruses.

Spillover is a great book to read about zoonotic diseases.

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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by pvg on Sunday October 01, 2023 @06:35PM (#37731646)

It would be odd vs any other country if any other country contained a quarter of the world population in 1977.

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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by Aachen on Sunday October 01, 2023 @06:09PM (#37731406)

To me on an individual level, it feels like there isn't much unclear about covid if you know how to filter unlikely conspiracy theories and such. In what way do you see politics colouring the generally established information?

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