[ExI] Some virus statistics

[Darin Sunley]

This is meaningless nonsense.

The case number is proportional to the population testing rate, and the
testing is still conflating viral and antibody tests, which pick up
literally any common cold antibodies, so it doesn't tell you anything
useful even in individual cases, let alone the population aggregate.

And hospitalizations and deaths are still an extremely noisy but basically
horizontal noise floor equivalent roughly to about twice a normal flu
season - even allowing for the fact that American hospitals are financially
incentivized to massively overrreport COVID deaths.

Somebody is trying to panic you. Because the panic is more contagious than
the disease, and far more useful.

And they're succeeding. Put a mask on and stop trying to retransmit it.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:02 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Our Mississippi governor has finally seen the light.  Not wearing one for
> months and not mandating it for anyone, he finally issued the order, which
> he says has no real legal stance.
>
> The last word on all of this will be Yogi Berra's:  "It ain't over until
> it's over."
>
> bill w
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:36 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:42 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>  > But there is some good news, yesterday for the first time since March
>>>> New York City did not have a single death from the virus.   john
>>>
>>>
>>> *> Is this rather definitive evidence that masks work?  Nothing else has
>>> been done, I assume.    bill w*
>>>
>>
>> It's not the total answer but you get more bang for your buck with
>> facemasks than with just about anything else, it's a no brainer, it's the
>> very first thing you should do because it's cheap and easy and helps quite
>> a lot, but unfortunately Trump decided to make facemasks part of the
>> culture wars which severely limited its use, especially in red states.
>>
>> A National Mask Mandate Could Save The U.S. Economy $1 Trillion, Goldman
>> Sachs Says
>> <https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2020/06/30/a-national-mask-mandate-could-save-the-us-economy-1-trillion-goldman-sachs-says/#cdb41d956f18>
>>
>> In addition New York City shut everything down and didn't reopen again
>> until the virus had reached very low levels. In contrast, on the very day
>> that Florida had by far the largest number of new COVID-19 cases that ANY
>> state had EVER had, Disney, with the encouragement of the Republican
>> governor, decided to reopen the largest amusement park in the world!
>>
>> John K Clark
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