Originally Posted by
Mark Stanton
I had a good laugh at both of you fucking up the statistics. First figuring out the compliment of 0.1% (99.9%) and then totally fucking up the expected number of deaths based on that. You guys somehow ended up with 10 million people dead in the U.S., which is 30 times higher that what it should be based on that death rate. I pretty much fully agreed with your approach, but now that we are already so deep into this mess the fastest way out seems to be the vaccine.
I think the only reasonable argument in defense of the current approach was that we are better prepared if something really deadly pops up. It sounds kind of silly to argue this, but given that this is the third coronavirus outbreak in the 21st century (SARS, MERS, COVID-19) maybe it actually will end up being useful to refine this model of response.