Kolek planning to go pro
It's a weapon for both sides these days.....science is real and meaningful when it supports your argument and fluid/unsettled when it isn't. It's not about complexity, it's about tribalism and the need to win
I think this is the case with all rational, educated people.
False equivalence
Wonder where guru is now that the WHO clarified its statment yesterday.
The current 14 states with their highest 7 day COVID-19 case average:https://twitter.com/dabeard/status/1270157207531896833
The fact that California is on that list should make people re-evaluate the lockdowns. They locked down early and had some of the most draconian measures and they are just now having their highest infection rate?
If you read the responses on the Twitter thread, one of them claims that the Texas AG told counties not to count prison cases in their totals.
Community spread was likely happening in the US in late January. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6922e1.htm?s_cid=mm6922e1_wAnecdotally, 2 stories. 1) i was completely laid out for 2 days at the end of January. Slept for almost 48 hours straight, only other symptom was the worst joint pain I've ever experienced. Wife frequently travels through Detroit, was in Westchester county, NY 2 weeks prior, and we were in Vegas 10 days earlier. Im scheduled for an antibody screen in two weeks, will be fascinated to see what my results are.2) a family from the kids' school had a family member in from Seattle over Christmas and for a few weeks in January. He was sick the whole time he was in Madison. Soon after, that family got sick, illness spread through the school, and at the same time, the youth hockey program.Back to news: Bloomberg had an article about superspreaders today, and how that can explain the spikes in South Korea amd other places. Its an opinion piece written by a non-medical person, so take it FWIW.https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2020-05-28/superspreader-events-might-actually-help-control-covid-19?__twitter_impression=true
Just got my antibody test back. Negative. Disappointed, actually. Wanted to help researchers and give plasma.
DO you know what testing you had? My current understanding is that a positive results means you had it but a negative result means you probably didn't have it but not for sure.
And now we are full circle on the asymptomatic merry go round.https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10/dr-anthony-fauci-says-whos-remark-on-asymptomatic-coronavirus-spread-was-not-correct.htmlhttps://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10/who-says-we-can-always-do-better-following-confusing-comments-on-asymptomatic-transmission.html
From the BBC on the U.K. situation:Coronavirus: 'Earlier lockdown would have halved death toll'https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52995064Prof Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told a committee of MPs: "Had we introduced lockdown measures a week earlier, we would have reduced the final death toll by at least a half.