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> At the start, the "Many thousands of mildly symptomatic infections aren't recorded" claim had plausibility. Now it needs to die in fire. Do you have an argum
by tomxor 7y ago
> At the start, the "Many thousands of mildly symptomatic infections aren't recorded" claim had plausibility. Now it needs to die in fire.
Do you have an argument against this other than die in a fire? In the UK the government is literally advising people to NOT call the NHS if they suspect they are infected but stay home and self isolate unless they become severely ill and cannot cope. It's pretty reasonable to assume the denominator is much larger from this behaviour.
- joe_the_user 7y agoThe UK plan is insane and could result in massive deaths. But hopefully will just be rolled once the deaths begin. You can read the discussion of the reasons to be pretty certain of the 1%+ fatality rate and how that's catastrophic on the rest of my thread and in more detail elsewhere. As to the UK plan, look here: "I'm an epidemiologist, when I heard the UK plan, I thought it was satire": https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/epidemiologist-britain-herd-immunity-coronavirus-covid-19 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/epidem...
- beaunative 7y agoWe don't need to take UK's number. There are whole pack of other countries using much more active methods to combat this virus.