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In response to "Interesting to watch IL and FL moving forward with primaries and OH declaring a health emergency -- nm" by ty97

This is why we have to be super careful to measure how we describe these things. My cousin in public health thinks this is a massive over reaction I’v

Posted by JackDawson (aka dawson) Mar 16 '20, 19:34

I’ve just reached out

Then again she likely voted for trump so grain of salt it

But she argues the death rate is massively over estimated due to no positive tests of people with mild or healthy symptoms

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sort of to the last point? Korea's done heaps of broad testing, and the cruise ships where they blanket test everyone give some good data. - mafic Mar 16, 19:40 8
- the death rate becomes higher if you don't have medical facilities to take care of the patients. you can say Italy had higher because of more elderly - zeitgeist Mar 16, 19:47 4
  - *shrug* this is what she does for a living, she argues Houston is exaggerating its response to seem like they’re doing something but that a rational r - JackDawson Mar 16, 19:56 3
    - the flat number limit makes no sense compared to the space per person thing... some places have large spaces, some bars 50 people stuff them -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 20:00 2
      - (She’s talking about restaurants) -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 20:02 1
        
        yes, restaurnts, here bars are supposed to have food too, but restaurants can be spacious or packed, saying 50 means little one to other -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 20:14
- I’d think the cruise ships are too small to be representative ? I’m truly impressed with Korea though -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 19:43 2
  - they skew old, but the Diamond Princess alone still had thousands of tests on asymptomatic people with hundreds of positive results. - mafic Mar 16, 20:04 1
    - and also the problem with "not enough data!" is once you have it maybe it's too late. -- (edited) - mafic Mar 16, 20:40

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