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Irrational panic, signed by hundreds of experts? It's clear that if we'd just allowed the disease to take its course, the hospital system would be overwhelmed.
by lordnacho 7y ago
Irrational panic, signed by hundreds of experts? It's clear that if we'd just allowed the disease to take its course, the hospital system would be overwhelmed.
- arcticbull 7y agoAre experts not human, and therefore immune to panic?
- lordnacho 7y agoReally? Hundreds of them? Writing and signing a letter together, based on years of research? But the cool heads in charge who studied classics are right of course.
- arcticbull 7y ago> But the cool heads in charge who studied classics are right of course. Clearly not, as evidenced by their lack of proceeding with the plan. That's my point.
- addicted44 7y agoRandom HNers though are obviously the best authorities though.
- Malcx 7y agoHow many of those experts were epidemiologists or virologists? Iirc there was 1 microbiologist there but mostly people from math and physics departments. 20% or so were still PhD students...
- Daishiman 7y agoAll the pandemic experts who studied and worked with other SARS varieties have the message. I'm not seeing any of those guys saying the threat of COVID-19 is overestimated.