Bad news for the global economy and people at risk who've not yet survived the bug.https://twitter.com/_MiguelHernan/status/1260625031119409156 …
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Some back of the envelope math: 5% of total Spanish Population has been infected. You probably need 10-15x that to get to a situation where so many people have had it that the virus' r0 is below 1 and thus dies out. 27,000 people have died in Spain so far, so we could guess that
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Spain probably has another 270,000 to 400,000 people to die. Comparing countries is apples to oranges, but I'd guess that the US' serological prevalence is lower than Spain's. Feels pretty likely that we're going to shoot right through the feds' worst case of 240k deaths in USA.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
There's a lot of data pointing to a ~1% population-wide fatality rate. The "just the flu" people are nuts.
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The open borders ideologues wouldn't let us keep the virus out of the country and the small business grifters want to let it rip through.
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All the data and the logic is pointing to the government lockdown being redundant after taking into consideration most people’s behavior. Even if we open up the economy is fucked.
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Dangerous to live in a society that can't beat a pandemic. Suppose this was a Chinese bioweapon - I think they've seen that if they roll a new one out every year or two, the U.S. isn't going to be able to bother them about Taiwan anymore.
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Yeah, if I'm Taiwan, I am definitely looking at contingency plans after this.
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