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Its been really interesting to me how various health minsters and government officials seem to be getting it in surprising numbers when only around 0.006% of th
by RugnirViking 7y ago
Its been really interesting to me how various health minsters and government officials seem to be getting it in surprising numbers when only around 0.006% of the world's population is infected. The amount of famous figures with the disease seems to be vanishingly unlikely to happen if it were distributed entirely by chance.
What mechanism is it that made these political/buisness/celebrity figures more likely to catch it? More international travel?
- samsonradu 7y agoI'm guessing they travel a lot and meet/shake hands with people all around the world?
- RugnirViking 7y agoPerhaps - I wonder if this kind of thing might inevitably lead to less physical contact in buisness/politics, or at least more caution around that kind of behaviour
- cjrp 7y agoNot following their own advice. MPs tested positive and yet the House of Commons remained open as normal.
- true_religion 7y agoThe government shutting down during a crisis would be a disaster. If politicians want to risk their lives, for the betterment of all, then for once I say let them. This isn’t to say they couldn’t do more to isolate themselves. Having the House self quarantine from all non members would at least stop the spread.
- Lewton 7y agoIn the past two weeks I've met three people, I imagine Boris might have interacted with 300
- dijit 7y agoMore access to testing; Many people consider that COVID-19 has spread far beyond what the official numbers suggest. This is more evidence of that. For context; an NYC nurse spoke to NYT about many people coming into the hospital for other things such as car accidents and the CT scan showed signs of COVID-19 on the lungs: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-hospitals.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-...
- mcv 7y agoThat's a good question. Travel and meeting lots of different people are major factors, of course. Most people in politics meet lots of different people and then meet each other, so it might well be that politics is a major vector for spreading this disease. And with politics being dominated by older men, and older men being the most vulnerable group, this sounds like it could easily turn into a major political disaster.
- rootsofallevil 7y agothey tend to do a lot of hand shaking and celebs will have people asking for selfies and stuff like this, so essentially they are in close contact with a lot more people than the average person.
- butler14 7y agoPresumably persistently meeting lots of people, and having to necessarily do so in order to do their job
- ttoinou 7y agoonly around 0.006% of the world's population is infected Maybe that's the hypothesis you need to invalidate ?
- djhworld 7y ago> What mechanism is it that made these political/buisness/celebrity figures more likely to catch it? Outside of meeting a lot of people, shaking hands, lots of contact etc it's worth remembering that they probably have much easier access to testing...
- Veen 7y agoIt's likely orders of magnitude more people are infected than are tested. But, in the UK, people like the PM and the Prince of Wales are a priority for testing. When they are infected, it's noticed.