Why the fuck would you assume there was a fixed size pneumonia pie? Why would such a thing exist? What would put that literally insane notion in your head, that there ever was a divinely enforced pneumonia maximum for any given year
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NancyARandazzo and
If there is a new source of infections that cause pneumonia, there will be more pneumonia The viruses and bacteria don't all have a big group meeting where they adjust their schedules to make sure they don't step on each other's territory
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NancyARandazzo and
This is another gross, wild lay misunderstanding of statistics, an application of the gambler's fallacy "The average person gets in a car accident once every 18 years, and I just got in one, so for now I can stop wearing my seatbelt"
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There are literally lists of the top 10 causes of death. Respiratory illness is a top killer. Of course there are many ways to arrange causes of death, comparing a death rate would be helpful in deciding if the measures of shutting down the economy have gone too far.
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No, it wouldn't, because it is a known fact, thanks to Louis Pasteur's germ theory and the examples of many, many pandemics in the past, that infectious disease is contagious and spreads exponentially
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“It’s not the germ, it’s the terrain.” We won’t know for a long time. The rate we’re testing with PCR, and serological tests rolling out next week, this is a whole new world. The shelter-in-place is inexcusable if the data turns out to be wrong. It is creating a mess.
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"The terrain" JFC So you think that COVID-19 only wreaked havoc on Italy and filled up the morgues because, what, they eat too much pasta Same with the noodle-heavy cuisine in China I guess Americans who eat mostly bread will be fine
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NancyARandazzo and
Fucking garbage denialism always running through the same script We've known germs cause disease for hundreds of years and they'll take any excuse not to wash their hands
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Same fucking shitheads who kept saying "HIV isn't AIDS, AIDS is caused by being *unhealthy*, just because I have HIV doesn't mean I'll get sick if I work out, avoid drug abuse and take lots of vitamins" And then died of AIDS
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NancyARandazzo and
Comparing the death rate of gunshot wound victims and saying "As you can see, people who are generally healthy survive being shot much more often than people with underlying conditions So therefore we can conclude that *bullets* don't kill people, *poor health* does"
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"Therefore we should step away from a bullet-centric, reductionist view of preventing gunshot deaths towards a holistic view Rather than trying to stop people from shooting us or avoid getting shot, we should focus on promoting general physical resilience"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NancyARandazzo and
That is, tbf, our response to gun violence in the US.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NancyARandazzo and
I thought we were supposed to shoot people who wanted to shoot us first, to prevent gunshot deaths. Wait...
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