hello agin Joe, and thank you for being perhaps my number one follower. if i might suggest though, perhaps a bit more detail in your replies? A bit more research into the background science?
See here
Coronavirus chart: see how your country compares | Free to read | Financial Times
Your lovely graph is a cumulative total and is a single measure of a number of trends under the surface. The second wave is hitting Europe now, that cannot be denied. What we saw here in March/April was a hurried, panicked response to images on TV from Spain and Italy, combined with a very real sense of the NHS being overwhelmed by a new disease that doctors did not know how to treat as patients piled up.
Since then health systems have become more ready and are better at treating Covid with, for instance, steroids to dampen the auto-immune responses that caused major organ failure in patients first time round. Further there is far, far greater testing and testing outside hospitals. Thusly, more tests = more diagnoses. Importantly, the tests carried out in the community now pick up vastly more younger and asymptomatic carriers. Previously, few were tested outside of hospitals. Therefore the death rate seems to fall - as a result of higher testing and better treatment. This, together with social distancing and lockdowns, have led to a situation where the health service is not in immanent danger of collapse which in itself leads to better health outcomes from medical staff who are not overworked and overwhelmed. So far. This does not negate the effects of Covid.
On the wider point of not having more detail... I really don't see the point of arguing, sentence by sentence with what you write. I have done so before and you simply ignore the bits you can't answer and, tbh, and reply in walls of text on other subjects that clarify matters for no-one.
The main points are that you:
- dangerously playdown the seriousness of the virus
- downplay the effects of removing constraints on public behaviour and movement
- are led by wishful thinking, not evidence
- misuse statistics frequently
- take preliminary studies and minor research that appears to correlate with your views and use it without caveat
- have an attitude of "I'm alright Jack"/"fuck the vulnerable" which makes it all the more distasteful
I'm not here to defeat you with words; you will not change your views. Your tagline about the referendum result is testimony to your difficulty with both numbers and reality. I accept that.
What I
am doing is providing correctives to your drivel for anyone who reads it and who might be swayed.
Bigger picture.
