Yes. Like respirators, if used inappropriately, Tylenol and aspirin can have life-threatening consequences.
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Yes. Like respirators, if used inappropriately, Tylenol and aspirin can have life-threatening consequences.
Today's NYC Daily Counts: COVID-19: Data - NYC Health
You mean the one that uses the word “assume” 23 times in it’s twenty pages and is based primarily on data provided by the CCP, who coincidentally? is one of the many entities that will be profiting enormously by this crisis?Quote:
Second, everybody keeps saying "the models were wrong" -- but that just shows that nobody bothers actually reading the papers. I did. The Imperial College paper from which the 2.2M estimate for an unchecked outbreak came from, also *explicitly* presented a wide variety of scenarios *with interventions*.
Are we stuck in this logical quagmire because you are that naive or because we are that cynical?
Thought-provoking piece. Read it before Medium takes it down:
Ground Zero: When the Cure is Worse than the Disease
Hey pal, I'm not trying to make fun of you, but we are at war here. There is no time for triple blind studies and doctor's with doctor's degrees trying to rip millions of dollars out of our estates while old people die on life support late in their live and bankrupting anyone who's not currently up and up on the health insurance lottery (their normal system actually, it looks like this is just a government backed version of the normal healthcare system actually).
We have the data. Seven states have not shut down their economies or activities at all. Between those seven states there are 100 total corona virus deaths. But thankfully, the media has even told us that they have super complicated models showing that these states haven't peaked, and their approximate peaks are on May 1, +/- 3 or four days which translates to +/- $500,000,000 in localized economic activity per day in each state. Bro these are data points. The article is even titled, "Seven states have not shut down their economies due to corona virus, here's why." Does that sound like a triple blind doctor study with my best interest at heart or some bitch 32 year old wine aunt with three cats trying to kill every white male she sees?
7 states with no stay-at-home orders over coronavirus - CNNPolitics
Also, when this broke in February really (I know earlier but the info became a bit clearer in February) they said "It can stay dormant and spread for fourteen days, most people don't know they have it, and if you do have it the best thing to do is go home and rest because there is nothing we can do to help". That is what the news said. CNN said that. Based on that fact, my response is why even bother, damn the torpedoes full speed ahead. If you can't do anything to mitigate it, why even bother.
If a hellslinging plague was after us we'd already be dead or not dead and not have time to use the numbers and 5-day rna transcriptase tests to manipulate whether or not this is bad or REALLY bad. You would know. What we have here is an existential crisis of critical thought. This is not new or surprising, critical thought and humanity has been being stamped out of the American public since ~circa 2016(hmm I wonder).
This is the logical end of political correctness and the suppression of creative expression. People have to intensify the remaining feelings they have, and all that's left now is "Muh Money!!!, and Muh Liberal, and Muh Guns". Humanity is a very valuable resource which people have been defaulting on for quite some time now. The fact that this virus pandemic is so twilight zone weird is just a manifest of the reality of the bankruptcy of critical thought, extinction of humor, and the mega dream of political correctness people.
I know these ideas and thought processes harm the very basis on which your ego bases it's foundation upon. But I can no longer hold back while my country and those I care about are tormented right in front of me because people are so boring they can't find a hobby or make human connections on a creative level.
Rip I know we're just young whippersnappers, but we really are trying our best out here.
I hope you watch this vid(made in 2013) and it brings a light bit of joy in this nice springtime
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As I'm writing this, the number of deaths is already higher than that in the second lowest flu season in the last 7 years for which there is complete data. And yeah, that's "fairly standard" in my book. (Would replacing "fairly standard" with "not unusual" make you happier?) As I'm sure you know, an outlier would be defined as something like 1 in 20 or less. But whatever: if 2 in 7 makes it an outlier for you, give it another week or two.
Look Rob, you're just wrong on this. We are talking about *deaths* but the site you're linking to is about *cases*. (The numbers on that page also don't match those you mentioned, but that's probably a typo or something.)
I don't know what to tell you, other than to read the paper. Tables 4 and 5 show a huge range of scenarios and their impact on things like the number of deaths. The actual number in the table are for the UK, but as the Table 4 caption explicitly states "Results are qualitatively similar for the US." The table shows that, depending on which exact strategy is adopted, the number of deaths will be reduced by factors between about 5 and 50 (for their reference case of R0 = 2.4 -- they even show numbers for other values of R0). In the US, where the detailed strategy is decided at state level, there is obviously no single "correction factor". (Maybe this is what you mean by granularity?) But you can still tell pretty easily that the numbers they predict are perfectly reasonable. As a country, the US is going to be somewhere in the middle of the severity of those restrictions. So that would be about a factor of 15 or so. So 2.2M for an unchecked outbreak then becomes 150,000 (with obviously significant uncertainty). And, as they explicitly state, the IFR they adopted at the time was 0.9%, so if we think it's 0.4% now, that number becomes 65,000.
I know that everybody here is now going to jump up and down about how useless models are that are that uncertain, etc etc. But that's just a misunderstanding of how models work or what they are used for. Everything you need to vet what they've done is provided for you. If you don't like the IFR -- or better data becomes available -- you update it. That's the point of models. It's not a flaw. And the fact that different suppression measures produce different degrees of suppression is just that -- a fact. It's not a flaw of the model -- it is what it is.
OF COURSE, all models are wrong in detail -- but some are useful. At the level at which this one is intended, it's pretty good -- it allows you to make better informed decisions.
You may not have noticed this, but it's a little unrealistic to expect me to respond to every poster on here who thinks I'm wrong. But fuck it, here are a couple of questions you apparently wanted answered:
- [W]hen schools need to close because of a snowstorm, should that decision be made by the principal, the superintendent, the school board, the board of freeholders/county legislature, the state governor, Congress, the President, or the United Nations?
- This may shock you, but snowstorms aren't infectious. I am totally comfortable with localism where it's appropriate. It's appropriate for a snowstorm. It isn't for a pandemic. Ask Nassim Taleb (who I would have thought you'd like better than I do, even though we can probably both agree he's not stupid).
- [Do you think the] only answer [to the epidemic] is martial law, ankle bracelets, movement tracking, etc.?
- No, because that would be stupid. What I said was that, if and when a suppression based on social intervention has worked, we will need a strategy to avoid major second (and third, and fourth...) waves. And that strategy will probably have to include mass testing and contact tracing. But there should obviously to strict rules: (a) all of it needs to be temporary, ceasing at the very latest when a vaccine becomes available; (b) testing and contact tracing should be done in an anonymized/encrypted way, with anonymization only relaxed to allow actual positive tests to be contacted and traced; (c) if the numbers are kept small enough, it might even be possible to ONLY contact trace new infections. And no, I'm not actually comfortable with any of this at all. But I'm still waiting to hear better alternatives.
- Are you ok with the government telling Walmart what they can and can not sell?
- Yes, in an actual emergency, why the hell not? If it stops a bunch of idiots going out to buy a nicer pair of shoes during a pandemic, great. It's not about those idiots, it's about everybody else those idiots may put in harm's way. In fact, I think it was *workers* in those stores who complained they were being put at risk by bored idiots browsing the stores.
I'll probably take another break from posting here for at least a few weeks, though I would still like to hear your (and Rip's!) response to three questions:
- (1) What's your best estimate of the number of deaths you'd if the outbreak wasn't suppressed? If it's substantially less than, say, 1 million, what was the assumed IFR and fraction of the population who was infected? And where did those numbers come from?
- Regardless of what your estimate for COVID-19 is, if *some* epidemic could be expected to produce, say, 1 million deaths without strict social interventions:
- (2) Would such interventions be justified?
- (3) Do you think the economy could continue to function more or less normally while such an unchecked infection goes on?
This is pretty rich, considering that pretty much all I've done in this thread is vet data-based claims *you* have made. I've yet to find a single instance where the data actually supported your view. I also think it's telling that every time this happens, you immediately switch topic. You don't even try to justify your incorrect claims (and God forbid you might acknowledge that they were wrong.)
You know, the only reason I'm even part of this community is that I've always valued what you've done for strength training. Specifically, that you logically and rationally analysed both the technique of the basic lifts and the way in which they can be efficiently programmed. As you might expect, there are many aspects of your "Corporate Culture" statement I couldn't sign up to, but I could sign up to this: "We value reason and logic over feeling and emotion, since quantification and verification are preferable to subjective assertion and whim.". But this is not what I see in this thread. All I see is subjective assertion and whim -- and then getting pissed off when anybody actually does use quantification and verification. This is not how the scientific method works.
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(1) What's your best estimate of the number of deaths you'd if the outbreak wasn't suppressed? If it's substantially less than, say, 1 million, what was the assumed IFR and fraction of the population who was infected? And where did those numbers come from?
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Ok so let’s run some numbers:
US population: 328,200,000
German study infection rate: 15%
Theoretical US infections: 49,230,000
German study IFR: .37%
US theoretical deaths: 182,151
Italian data no comorbidities: 12%
Total US deaths sole cause: 21,858
Compare to the 2017 statistics for chronic respiratory (160,201) and flu/pneumonia (55,672) for a grand total of 215,873.
At this point I don't really care if a million people die. They might, but not of COVID-19. In 2018, 2,839,205 died in the US. That goes up 33%, it's bad, but it won't, because your model is wrong and you are wrong, as several of us have pointed out several times. So far, ~23,000 are dead, so like I said before, you'd better get busy killing some people. ("Just wait a couple of weeks" Yeah, okay.) And if it does, the survivors will do better in a functioning economy, as opposed to the wreckage you and your buddies have handed us. But I'll give you this: you're a pig-headed motherfucker. That's kind of admirable.
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Regardless of what your estimate for COVID-19 is, if *some* epidemic could be expected to produce, say, 1 million deaths without strict social interventions:
(2) Would such interventions be justified?
It will function better if it's allowed to than it will if it's not allowed to. You don't actually know much about economics, which is why you never deal with it in your quasi-intellectual bullshit posts.Quote:
(3) Do you think the economy could continue to function more or less normally while such an unchecked infection goes on?
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I thought this was pretty clear. But Lazy only reads his own posts, because no one else is capable of such clear distillation of Lazy's obviously correct analysis.Quote:
Ok so let’s run some numbers:
US population: 328,200,000
German study infection rate: 15%
Theoretical US infections: 49,230,000
German study IFR: .37%
US theoretical deaths: 182,151
Italian data no comorbidities: 12%
Total US deaths sole cause: 21,858
Compare to the 2017 statistics for chronic respiratory (160,201) and flu/pneumonia (55,672) for a grand total of 215,873.