Epidemiology

This is the correct response to Covid: We’re going to treat it like any other respiratory virus.

It is simply not possible to stop a virus from spreading, or to prevent people from being exposed to it.  Instead, we must focus on protecting those most at-risk from the virus, and treating those sickened by it, as best we can. 

Everybody else – get back to work.

The existence of the virus is not a hoax; the panic response is a political hoax that deliberately sacrifices senior citizens’ lives to terrify voters into electing a man who promises to keep them safe.  It’s despicable.

Joe Doakes

Rahm Emanuel let slip the great Progressive commandment – “never waste a crisis”.

The pandemic was real. So was the Democrats’ adherence to Emanuel.

3 thoughts on “Epidemiology

  1. The toolbox of public health for dealing with Covid came from the experience with SARS, which caused severe, immediate illness. Therefore identifying patients was easy. Isolating them was less of a problem because they all sought medical attention or died quickly. Covid spread around the world faster than awareness of it. Except for islands or totalitarian states, quarantine wasn’t ever going to work. Yet the delusion persists that closing businesses, schools etc and wearing cloth masks will magically cause Covid to vanish.

  2. Some commenter here recently touted the factoid, reported by the NY Times, that the states with the worst outbreaks have the least covid restrictions. That idea has been ably debunked by the AIER.
    The best bit is that the two authors of the NY Times piece aren’t journalists and have no scientific or medical background. They are “graphics editors.”
    From the AIER:
    How in the world can the NYT claim that states that did not lock down have the worst outbreaks? The claim hinges entirely on a trivial discovery. Some clever someone discovered that if you reflow data by cases per million instead of deaths per million, you get an opposite result. The reasons: 1) when the Northeast experienced the height of the pandemic, there was very little testing going on, so the “outbreak” was not documented even as deaths grew and grew, 2) by the time the virus reached the Midwest, tests were widely available, 3) the testing mania grew and grew to the point that the non-vulnerable are being tested like crazy, generating high positives in small-population areas.

    By focusing on the word “outbreak,” the Times can cleverly obscure the difference between a positive PCR result (including many false positive and perhaps half or more asymptomatic cases) and a severe outcome from catching the virus. In other words, the Times has documented an “outbreak” of mostly non-sick people in low-population areas.

  3. There you go again Max with facts and logic… Dontcha know the narrative will change and facts will be invented/ignored until morale improves?

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