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Trump yesterday: “Today I’m instructing my administration to stop funding of the WHO while a review is conducted to assess the WHO’s role in severely ...
Where I live proper masks are difficult to come by, but I think the efficacy of masks and even goggles is obvious at this point. But also, as the stud...
According to this study, "the key metric for the success of social distancing is whether critical care capacities are exceeded", and in order to avoid...
As more info is revealed, it is becoming increasingly difficult to discount the idea that the pandemic is the result of a lab accident in Wuhan, and t...
There is a horrific case in Quebec, Canada, where 31 care home residents have died, only 5 of which were attributed to covid-19. It is possible the re...
I wasn’t dismissing the criticism. I was merely asking why the criticism is US-centric, why other governments, international institutions, and those w...
A lot of criticism in this thread is aimed at the US, for whatever reason, even though everyone can clearly see the virus was brought to the continent...
Liberal Democracies embody a system of trial-and-error, a la Popper. A country is almost forced to learn from the mistakes of its political experiment...
I meant there will be an accounting of their efforts, that the resignation of the chief scientist is a sign things weren’t handled well. I wasn’t sayi...
We’ll see about that. The EU's chief scientist just resigned from his position at the head of the European Research Council. So, unless Brussels has n...
It really goes to show that when some institutions are actually put to the test they reveal how effete and powerless they really are. It makes you won...
I’m not sure if that’s the case. Italy has been on lockdown for a month now. We do not yet know what will occur when and if it can relax their lockdow...
Despite claims to the opposite, the “Swedish model” survives another week, with Swedish doctors and scientists staying course. This week will be cruci...
I think they came up with those high numbers with strict social distancing policies already factored in. We’ll just have to say they were wildly inacc...
It looks like the head of the European Research Council, the EU’s main science body, has resigned over the coronavirus response. Trouble in the ivory ...
People will see the opposite. Many have suffered the most difficult of suffering and have no less had children, families, grand children, as they have...
Of course it’s true that not going outside will reduce the “paths of transmission”. I would argue that you’re not so much reducing a path of transmiss...
I’ve volunteered to become a contact tracer and I start training tomorrow. It is something I can do from the home office. I’ll let you guys know what ...
I can see these tedious little gotcha games a mile away. I said I don’t know enough to give a reasonable answer, which you suspiciously left out of th...
Obviously less, though I think a herd immunity approach has some merit. I simply do not know enough to give a reasonable answer. But before you try to...
I think it’s an important point. The conflation of physical distancing and self-isolation has reached an absurd level. One can easily maintain the adv...
No, both are true. The statistical likelihood of me coming into contact with someone when I go outside is greater. Does this mean I necessarily come i...
No, I agreed that one is more likely to transmit the virus if he comes into contact with people. What I disagree with is the implication that going ou...
Yes, I can show that I never agreed that hiding in one’s house is helping others. I can show that you made that part up. One can avoid contact with ot...
Asking people to give up their livelihood and the means with which they support themselves and their family isn’t asking a little. It is asking a lot,...
Again I don’t think it’s that black and white. You are literally not helping others, protecting others, or soothing any suffering by hiding in your ho...
I completely agree with your sentiment. It is a very fluid and dynamic situation and the lack of data makes predictions difficult. But I do think we c...
And I suppose zero criticism for those who are in charge of, and have jurisdiction over, their own emergency responses. If you think liberty has anyth...
Ask the EU how difficult a task that is. They are now balkanizing in contradiction to their open border agreements. The US is invoking the full powers...
Communities are better able to serve their members than some distant authority by sheer proximity alone. The American revolution was founded on such a...
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