Alright, last post from me, at least for a few weeks, when we will know how bad this outbreak really is.
Bloody hell. OK, how about this: "Given that they had COVID-19 symptoms and then died, they definitely wouldn't have died if they didn't have COVID-19." Happy now? It's no longer as correct, but so much more black-and-white. And black-and-white thinking is of course precisely what situations like this desperately need.
I see. Just to recap: he is right when he agrees with you, and wrong otherwise. Got it.
In particular, he's right that the modellers are imbeciles, even though his own thinking is much closer to theirs than it is to yours. I'm confused. Does that mean he must be an imbecile also? Or you? Or everybody?
Again, I find this truly incredible. You say you believe in science. But I guess you consider all epidemiology as pseudo-science? Because it's all about modelling and forecasting the course of current and future outbreaks on the basis of what we know about previous ones? If you really believe that, ... well ... I don't know what to say, really.
Absolutely. Like all libtards, socialists and communists (aka "Europeans"), I actually think we should *all* be welded into our apartments permanently. In fact, I have already provisionally welded myself into my own house. I did that right after the meeting of the Socialist Party in which we decided to create the coronavirus so we could finally get going with all the welding.
If I was a capitalist, you wouldn't believe how much money I would have invested in companies that produce welding equipment. You should do it though, it's not too late!
Unlike you, I was not requesting anything, but asking in good faith. In any case, please see my response to DrT
First, it's true that people can't live as normal in both scenarios -- the difference being that in one of them 100,000 people have died (and many more are about to).
Second, "you people"? Seriously? Who do you think you are talking to? This isn't Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, Bernie Sanders or President Macron, you know. I'm flattered though. Thanks.
Wow. You are accusing me of sloppy thinking in a paragraph that goes on to say "This is already a worst-case scenario". Are you honestly saying that you cannot imagine things getting worse?
More precisely, do you really think there is no chance at all that this disease is precisely as infectious and deadly as experts say it is? And that anything other than drastic interventions would end up with a *far* worse scenario, where people don't die hypothetically from a Great Depression, but actually, from COVID-19 (followed by a Great Depression).
Because it's one thing to say that you acknowledge that possibility, but completely disagree with the experts on its likelihood. But it's quite another to say that such a scenario is impossible.