On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 3:05:19 AM UTC+10, snipped-for-privacy@columbus.rr.com wro te:
ause of this virus.
It told you that you might if you didn't do something sensible to slow down the spread of the infection. US deaths are now at 93,533, after 0.5% of th e population has been infected. If the other 99.5% of the population eventu ally gets infected it would presumably kill another 1.78 million US citizen s.
The US did slow down the epidemic so that the number infected is going up a t a steady, more or less constant rate but it is possible that it will keep on doing that until there's vaccine that stops people getting infected or an antiviral that stop the virus from reproducing in human cells.
ate in a lab.
What science actually said was that there wasn't any evidence that it had, which isn't quite the same thing. There is a a whole lot more virus spread out in lots of different wild animals than there is in the tiny population s being studied in labs, so the crucial mutations that let Covid-19 infect humans are more likely to have evolved in the wild.
Clinical trials suggest that it doesn't do much - not enough to justify ris king the side-effects.
ssary.
Nobody has said that they aren't helpful. When there weren't enough to go a round it made sense to save them for use in the places where they did the m ost good - where there were a lot of virus particles around for them to blo ck.
It did happen in a few places, for a while.
ty down until there is a vaccine.
What science actually says is that vigorous contact tracing can slow down t he infection rate enough that the epidemic actually go away. Lock down make s contact tracing easier, and makes it more likely that the potentially inf ected people who are told to self-isolate for 14 days from the potenially i nfections contact will actually do it.
Lock down - on its own - is just a dramatic political gesture that lets the politicians look as if they are doing something about the epidemic. South Korea never bothered. Trump doesn't seem to have bothered even trying to do anything that might have been effective enough to work.
are really really hoping that the death rate spikes up very quickly to make sure that all us idiots keep listening to science.
Nobody on the let is all that confident that idiots like you will ever list en hard enough to understand what science is actually saying, as opposed to what you like to think that it is saying.
Covid-19 isn't all that selective about the people it kills so it doesn't s electively kill off the ignorant idiots - more their elderly neighbours.