Starting Strength Network Previews | Australians Digging in the Sewer

[Bre Hillen]

[smokeyjones]

National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) – a new public health tool to understand COVID-19 spread in a community | CDC

[Mark Rippetoe]

Smokey, what is the survival rate in NZ for COVID-19?

[smokeyjones]

Smokey, what is the survival rate in NZ for COVID-19?

Bit early to say really. Up until 6 weeks ago / delta we'd been basically Covid free for over a year. So, our sample size is pretty small and we've never had wide spread community transmission testing our Health care system.

Our official data is 4204 confirmed cases with 27 deaths. Survival rate of 99.36%. Likely inflated due to our outbreaks being in vulnerable populations, the determination between dying with or dying from and undertesting of asymptomatic people. Will be interesting to see what the % of people who have a particularly bad time but don't die is. Obviously, we're going to have to open up and find out.

It's just sad seeing the narrative change. Practically every country, US included, tried to eliminate the virus at the start. The world failed. This was never "oh it's just the flu, lets just keep doing what we're doing." Rationalizing an outcome that you didn't choose after the fact is not helpful.

[Mark Rippetoe]

My point is the question, are these bizarre, disruptive, harmful mitigation efforts justified by a death rate of 0.64%, when you know that even that rate is wildly inflated?