[ExI] uk being strafed again

[spike at rainier66.com]

> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] uk being strafed again

On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 at 00:30, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Owwwww, dang, this wasn’t supposed to happen:
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Yes it was!
Remember that most of these cases show little or no symptoms and very very few are hospitalised or die.
Think of it as thousands of people being vaccinated every day. They will all show positive detections.
When a large enough percentage of the population has a positive detection and becomes a 'case' with no symptoms, herd immunity happens and the pandemic will be over.
The virus will still be around, so at risk people will still have to take precautions until a vaccination is available.


BillK

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Thanks for that BillK.  

One of the lessons learned: if we keep politics out of it, science has a chance to find out what is really going on.

Consider that odd Sturgis signal.  After the bikers went away, the city of Sturgis offered free covid testing.  There were enough tests for 1300 locals, 20% of the population of Sturgis.

650 chose to get a test.

Of the 650 tested, positives were 26, which is about 4% of those tested.  Statewide average is somewhere in the 3% to 7% range.

Only when we filter away the politics can we get at the science.

spike