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Roger Gregoire

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...let me try again, HERE ARE MY SPECIFIC WORDS below. Can you respond to these words with a YES or NO???? Assuming Joe, John and the pie are all toge...
February 01, 2021 at 13:51
My words: Your interpretation of my words: ...you're killin me Smalls! (...shaking my head in disbelief)
February 01, 2021 at 13:45
Firstly, you seem to be fabricating a delusional interpretation of my words. And secondly, this is not necessarily ridiculous (i.e. thousands of peopl...
February 01, 2021 at 10:28
InPitzotl, can you grasp this concept? Yes or No?
January 31, 2021 at 18:35
I'm glad you were honest enough to end with this paragraph and not continue to falsely equate all the viruses in mankind with this one virus that we c...
January 31, 2021 at 15:25
If you are trying to falsely equate the virus as grains of sand, or molecules of water relative to two people (Joe and John), then the virus greatly o...
January 31, 2021 at 14:04
...an irrelevant red herring.
January 30, 2021 at 20:03
The reason herd immunity works is because it distributes a significant portion of the viral load to the healthy immune (who don't die), and AWAY from ...
January 30, 2021 at 14:48
Keywords: sufficient proportion of a population. Your theory is just the opposite. Your theory is based on creating an insufficient proportion! You fa...
January 30, 2021 at 14:09
There is no contradiction. And it's not just me saying this, but virtually all medical experts, scientists, and health agencies (e.g. CDC, etc) also s...
January 30, 2021 at 04:59
Not only does this contradict basic math and logic, but it also doesn't align with current science. Without healthy people mixing in with vulnerable p...
January 29, 2021 at 20:27
Book, you are spot on. I am just trying to play nice. "Well intentioned" is just my (nicer; hidden) way of saying exactly what you said. I think Dr. F...
January 29, 2021 at 13:17
The herd immunity threshold is based on having a minimum mix of healthy people to vulnerable people, typically thought to be around 60%/40% ratio. If ...
January 29, 2021 at 12:02
Okay, so let me try asking a different way. How does healthy people factor into protecting vulnerable people in your model? ******************* You do...
January 29, 2021 at 01:15
Logic always trumps science. If something is logically impossible then all the science in the world cannot make the impossible, somehow possible. Clos...
January 28, 2021 at 17:53
You did say this, ...right? --- "the only role healthy people play in herd immunity is by not getting infected". So then how do "healthy people not ge...
January 28, 2021 at 17:47
As can be seen, logically and mathematically, we are killing many, many more people by implementing social distancing on our healthy population. If we...
January 28, 2021 at 15:59
Also, if I understand your program/model correctly, the "protective effect" shown on your program is a function of "removing" (not "adding") healthy p...
January 28, 2021 at 15:15
But you are not accounting for the protective effect of this immune person (removing more of the virus than he creates).
January 28, 2021 at 14:49
...any virus that infects an immune person is a dead virus, ...meaning one less virus in the environment, ...meaning that immune people remove more vi...
January 28, 2021 at 14:47
Then there would be no such thing as "herd immunity"! I suspect it more likely that your program is not using the true volumetric ("density") calculat...
January 28, 2021 at 14:38
Correct. If we hide (socially distance) healthy people in mosquito proof gunny sacks then there will be more vulnerable deaths, (as per the equations)...
January 28, 2021 at 14:30
Isaac, look at the math and the logic. Please point out the specific error that you see. Again, if healthy immune people didn't remove more of the vir...
January 28, 2021 at 14:16
1. If we add healthy people, then less vulnerable people die. 2. If we remove (quarantine) vulnerable people, then less vulnerable people die. 3. If w...
January 28, 2021 at 14:06
Oops, I've got "Nv" representing two different things. Corrected equation: P0=Nv/Np, where P0 is initial probability, Nv is number of viruses, Np numb...
January 28, 2021 at 13:58
E is just the protective effect, it doesn't tell you how many (or what %) of people are saved, or have died. If you want to know how many dead (assumi...
January 28, 2021 at 13:46
Yes, of course. Preventing (or social distancing) healthy people from away from contaminated environments allows the contaminated environment to only ...
January 28, 2021 at 13:28
No. And again, the initial odds of infection are n viruses/n people in a given environment. (...if you wish to multiply this value by a 90% probabilit...
January 28, 2021 at 12:41
THE CORRECTED CALCULATIONS: The amount of the virus within a given environment, divided by the total number of people within that environment dictate ...
January 28, 2021 at 12:10
2. "the only role healthy people play in herd immunity is by not getting infected" -- InPitzotl Seriously? ...you are playing games, ...you know very ...
January 27, 2021 at 21:50
So then, what is P2? How do we get from P1 to C1?
January 27, 2021 at 13:35
2. "the only role healthy people play in herd immunity is by not getting infected" -- InPitzotl InPitzotl, your coding/program/model all "beg-the-ques...
January 27, 2021 at 13:07
No problem with my logic. If my premises are true, then sickness is irrelevant. And if sickness is irrelevant, then your statement is false. It's as s...
January 27, 2021 at 12:34
Firstly, and just to give you a heads up, I am very well versed in logical fallacies. So your constant throwing of the names of logical fallacies up a...
January 26, 2021 at 19:22
This is funny that you say this, because this is exactly how I see your responses. Isn't it interesting how we each see the other as the "irrational" ...
January 26, 2021 at 12:06
Virtually all reputable medical scientists on this planet (even Dr. Fauci) agree that #1 is true. They also agree that herd immunity is our ONLY means...
January 25, 2021 at 19:20
So I suppose that you are also against ambulance drivers responding to traffic accidents because they themselves might get into a traffic accident? So...
January 25, 2021 at 13:25
You seem to be playing both sides of the fence here. Please clarify, which is it: 1. Do healthy immune people SAVE vulnerable people (via herd immunit...
January 25, 2021 at 13:23
Vulnerable people don't die when healthy become immune. Vulnerable people only die if we don't protect them from the virus. Vulnerable people are prot...
January 24, 2021 at 14:49
This is blatantly false. *********** It is not that we necessarily need to keep vulnerable people away from certain people, it is that we need to keep...
January 24, 2021 at 05:07
TRUE. For every virus that is killed by a healthy immune person, means one less virus for a vulnerable person to be potentially exposed to. Healthy im...
January 24, 2021 at 03:44
How do you propose minimizing the total number of sick people? Our current social distancing efforts only seem to be back firing on us. ********** Agr...
January 24, 2021 at 03:28
FALSE. Strategic herd immunity REDUCES the total number of viruses, not "increases". If it truly increased the total number of viruses then there woul...
January 24, 2021 at 03:03
Who said anything about infecting "EVERYONE"??? We only expose the HEALTHY to covid, not the vulnerable!!! The healthy don't die of exposure to covid,...
January 24, 2021 at 02:15
...so then what are you promoting? ...to just keep hiding and hope it goes away??? I am only seeing excuses for 'inaction'.
January 24, 2021 at 00:53
Your so-called "empirical data" is nothing but cherry picking certain facts to create a scary story. Look at the actual data itself of those that have...
January 24, 2021 at 00:30
"Atlas has argued that, if herd immunity is an inevitable destination, we should perhaps put our foot on the accelerator." Scott Atlas is absolutely c...
January 24, 2021 at 00:16
Empirical data tells us otherwise. Contrary to the "fear mongering" media, of the over 2 million worldwide covid deaths so far, 99.1% had at least one...
January 23, 2021 at 23:39
How about we just cut to the chase? Let's put aside your condescending remarks and identify the root of our disagreement, ...unless of course, you hav...
January 23, 2021 at 22:08