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Please stop spreading FUD. Thank you.

• mmmmmyumyum 7y ago
  That's what I meant by "I want this to be a statistical discussion". I'm not spreading FUD at all. Those are all valid questions from a statistical point of view. I'm definitely not spreading Fear. Fear is what is spread by the media when showing military trucks carrying away corpses and people subsequently assume that the situation is very very bad without asking for baselines.
  • fcurts 7y ago
    https://reason.com/2020/03/17/italian-daily-death-rate-up-20-because-of-coronavirus-lombardy-up-about-80/ https://reason.com/2020/03/17/italian-daily-death-rate-up-20... The evidence is overwhelming. Questioning it is an extraordinary claim. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I won't comment further.
    • mmmmmyumyum 7y ago
      Thanks for not contributing anything useful to this discussion.
  • mmmmmyumyum 7y ago
    Note: The two paragraphs in the link you replied with, are not evidence at all. For example the author also neglects the variance in the mortality rate each year. If they were evidence, then the author would deserve a nobel price in epidemiology. On the other hand, here's a nobel price winner saying: "While many epidemiologists are warning of months, or even years, of massive social disruption and millions of deaths, Levitt says the data simply don’t support such a dire scenario — especially in areas where reasonable social distancing measures are in place." This article concludes with “The real situation is not as nearly as terrible as they make it out to be,”. https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-03-22/coronavirus-outbreak-nobel-laureate https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-03-22/coronavirus...
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