If COVID kills the majority of people that would've otherwise died from these issues (pulmonary, heart, cancer patients). and there isn't a correspond...
I mean, COVID is more likely to kill people who are more likely to die anyway. This complicates whatever attribution of death to COVID you do. Even if...
Whether it's a random sample with no causal mechanism or not depends on the model. Some models are better. The question is: who are those people who a...
It isn't necessary that those within a risk group that are "least healthy" will die, it's just more likely. If you found any factor or variable which ...
Aye. When someone is usually tested based on severity the data's going to have things which will come from colliders, they'll tend to inflate sample c...
That wasn't my intention. I was just talking about whether partitioning the data based upon risk group removes the collider bias you mentioned, and gi...
The latter odds of the two coinciding likely depend on comorbidity to begin with though. I think if you stratified based on comorbidity the reasoning ...
I saw this in the related news the other day, "First ever iceberg wearing a bad wig found on large landmass situated between Atlantic, Pacific and Arc...
Ok. I asked a doctor. They said I'm not increasing the transmission risk by washing the sink how I wash it. Absent a good justification, I'm gonna tak...
Compliments aren't supposed to be just objective appraisals. They're not like... surveys, I mean "You look beautiful" is not "I have done a survey of ...
@"frank" I just wanted to provide some info about the things that make death statistics fluctuate a lot, based on (what I assume is) the same Lancet p...
To be honest I could've ranted on at you @"ssu" for a very long time, but I wanted to add one more thing that's important to notice; the delays didn't...
You're right, there were multiple ways of impeding the spread of the virus. The less socially intrusive ways were less effective. The European countri...
I'm sure you already know this, but regardless of media reporting, healthcare systems would have been way more likely to fail, and even more people wo...
Ah. Yeah, I read about that. Attributing the observed risk inflation between countries to something which is constant over those populations is strang...
Heredity is unlikely to multiply the death rate within countries by a factor of 6 compared to the predicted population risk when genetic effects are c...
My guess is that the UK's is high because testing isn't commonplace. That means that the majority of confirmed cases are serious ones, it's a data sel...
It seems you think that now that policy interventions have been implemented in the US, and were extremely skeptical of it beforehand. You demonstrably...
You have such a poor track record saying true things about the virus and the effectiveness and necessity of policy interventions it's difficult to tak...
I dunno what to tell you. If you don't deny that "test, isolate, treat" when consistently applied has demonstrably lead to bankruptcy in the US and no...
Have you looked? Seriously, "test, isolate, treat" is the maxim for dealing with a pandemic. Having a healthcare system which makes people avoid those...
I can give you the centrist/conservative line on this if you like. Well no investment strategy in healthcare could possibly have provided for everyone...
No one is throwing all the deaths at capitalism's feet, anticapitalist; specifically anti-austerity; criticism which has been going on (in Europe too,...
Even if you don't consider the healthcare angle, delays in implementing quarantine measures do that. (1) How quickly a disease spreads controls the gr...
I really enjoyed the discussion about reasoning being schematic or not. Roughly, reasoning to demonstrate a claim schematic when it applies to every i...
I flipped a coin, it came out heads. But what're the chances of a human flipping the coin and coming out heads? Tiny! Almost impossible! Therefore, th...
I had imagined that the basis by which someone believed something wasn't a one dimensional thing; like another fact which happened to entail it. I had...
I agree with this in general, more data is a good thing. As is more practice dealing with it - communicating, learning what others' see as relevant to...
I think what you're doing is this: (A) Look at how philosophy is practiced now. (B) Look back into history to see how it came about. Methodologically,...
I'd hesitate to see women's socialisation structually and men's individually. If you express negative feelings as a guy, you're a failure - that was a...
Centrists and the right several days ago: This crisis was unpredictable, the information that our governments were informed of was irrelevant, and we ...
I want to read your post more times and make notes on it before responding so that we can have a productive discussion without (1) me writing in a way...
It'd be an interesting argument, for sure. I'm persuaded by Engel's account of the origin of patriarchy, linking it to ownership concepts of agricultu...
Framing Chinese people and Russians as enemies. Stating that the government (which, where?) are dealing with people being too PC towards people from o...
... So now the aggression you promoted towards the Chinese and the Russians for the sole purposes of a joke is... Buttressed by a declaration that it ...
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