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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Replying to @arthur_affect @eaton and
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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Replying to @NancyARandazzo @eaton and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @eaton and
“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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Replying to @NancyARandazzo @eaton and
"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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Replying to @arthur_affect @NancyARandazzo and
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 @eaton and
We are getting real-time data of graphs going up from 0, showing us number of tests given, number positive cases, number of fatalities. What’s wrong with asking for something aimilar as a control, if I live in a country where one of us dies every 12 seconds?
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Replying to @NancyARandazzo @eaton and
What the fuck does "control" even mean here Why would an exponentially growing number being currently lower than another number that is stable prove anything
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Replying to @arthur_affect @eaton and
To justify draconian policies being rolled out. ‘Round and round we go.
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Because exponential growth is how pandemics work, it's visible on the charts right now, and it's caused mass deaths historically multiple times
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NancyARandazzo and
We keep going "round and round" to this point because it's obviously true and you're just putting your fingers in your ears
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NancyARandazzo and
She’s an anti vaxxer- don’t think there’s much chance she will understand
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