Wuhan Killer Sneeze (thanks Tea)

[luka]

Biscuits you can beleive any mad stuff you want but you have to be a bit cool. Cucks is not cool. Be cool for me. Don't be a weirdo nerd.

 

[Leo]

The measures are an over-reaction by design, as that's how UK crisis management is set up to work (prepping for the 'reasonable worst case', not the most probable one).

you always go on about this but I don't understand the argument, why would they do this? what's in it for them?

 

[mixed_biscuits]

you always go on about this but I don't understand the argument, why would they do this? what's in it for them?

It's just the precautionary principle, I guess.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

The meaninglessness of positive cases (https://probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2020/11/latest-uk-covid-19-stats-roundup.html):

 

[Leo]

aren't asymptomatic people likely to spread it to high-risk people, since they don't know they are carriers?

 

[mixed_biscuits]

@Leo Unless the proportion of asymptomatics is increasing, the number of positive tests is due to the increase in tests.

Also, where is the proof that asymptomatics are a significant transmission risk? China doesn't think they transmit.

 

[WashYourHands]

Bastions of truth with that govt.

 

[Mr. Tea]

@Leo

Also, where is the proof that asymptomatics are a significant transmission risk? China doesn't think they transmit.

So China is a trustworthy source of covid-19 information now?

 

[hucks]

@Leo Unless the proportion of asymptomatics is increasing, the number of positive tests is due to the increase in tests.

there’s also a rising proportion of tests that are positive

 

[hucks]

The meaninglessness of positive cases (https://probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2020/11/latest-uk-covid-19-stats-roundup.html):

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This is embarrassing.

 

[Leo]

Also, where is the proof that asymptomatics are a significant transmission risk? China doesn't think they transmit.

stands to reason, doesn't it? where's the proof that they aren't?

 

[Mr. Tea]

There's also, you know, the small matter of 500 deaths a day.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

there’s also a rising proportion of tests that are positive

a) where's the graph from?
b) better to track ppl actually ill rather than pos tests, given all the issues with the latter (which then affects the death figures @Mr. Tea)

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Conspiracy theorists thinking that peer-reviewed science from China is intended to lead the West to underestimate asymptomatic transmission.

 

[hucks]

a) where's the graph from?
b) better to track ppl actually ill rather than pos tests, given all the issues with the latter (which then affects the death figures @Mr. Tea)

A guy on twitter using the daily dashboard stats.
I know there are issues with the tests but the trends are clear. The number of positive tests rise when the proportion of tests that are positive rise. Then, two weeks later, hospital admissions rise, with some adjustment for age.

Also from what I read the big problem with the new mass testing is false negatives, not false positives.

 

[luka]

I don't think China wants to crash the world economy particularly. That's my opinion, as a noted economist and expert on world affairs.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I don't think China wants to crash the world economy particularly. That's my opinion, as a noted economist and expert on world affairs.

Well yeah, if we're all poor then we'll stop buying their stuff.

I mean, as an economics Nobel laureate myself, I concur.

 

[wild greens]

The new one that is meant to be banging London & Essex is this one that they adapted to make mice contagious

Adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 in BALB/c mice for testing vaccine efficacy | Science

science.sciencemag.org

 

[Mr. Tea]

Conspiracy theorists thinking that peer-reviewed science from China is intended to lead the West to underestimate asymptomatic transmission.

I can't even work out if this is a confession, an accusation, an aspiration, or what.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

I can't even work out if this is a confession, an accusation, an aspiration, or what.

If the members of this board think the Chinese research untrustworthy, what do they think is at play?