It's getting to the point where I may just start walking around the streets yelling this question at random peoplehttps://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/30/coronavirus-mystery-why-so-few-cases-south-asia-india-pandemic-lockdown/ …
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Replying to @tomgara
You'd probably get better answers than asking the WHO
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Replying to @MarketUrbanism
In fairness to the WHO I'd assume their answer is just...nobody knows?
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Instead of we don't know, WHO says "no evidence that..." but it doesn't mean that's not perhaps part of the answer. So WHO doesn't know either but sounds a lot more confident than they should be because of the way they conflate absence of evidence with evidence of absence.
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And they never apply this high standard of proof to their preferred remedies of mass lockdowns & testing/tracing. I can see why – it's a fast-moving virus, we need answers even if they're not perfect! But they they apply a dramatically higher standard to masks, weather, BCG, etc.
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Yep. Very frustrating. I'm pretty convinced on the first one, and the last two have suggestive data with trials underway. But read the article and it's described as "tenuous theories" because of the way WHO speaks rather than: actually, very interesting and we're looking into it.
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