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no, I really don't think so. no epidemiologist actually has seen anything like what we are seeing today, they are not all that well prepared. this disease defi
by glofish 7y ago
no, I really don't think so. no epidemiologist actually has seen anything like what we are seeing today, they are not all that well prepared.
this disease defies the models, youth is unaffected etc.
If they were prepared well then they would not insist on imposing the exact same rules for NYC as for rural NY State. The two places could not be any more different.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoDefine "like". People haven't seen the exact scenario, but people - epidemiologists and others - have studied the Spanish Flu, and MERS, SARS, H1N1, seasonal flus, etc., which all have useful similarities.
- glofish 7y agonone of these diseases are anything like this, no person under 18 has died of the disease in Italy, 3% or less of cases in population under 20 etc. many people don't show symptoms but are quite infectious etc which disease is like that? none actually.
- MrPatan 7y agoGiven how bad the data about the current pandemic is, why do you think data about previous pandemics was any better?
- frank2 7y agoBecause there has been more time to collect and analyze the data about the previous ones.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoAnd because there's far less political pressure to obfuscate figures of past epidemics.
- littlestymaar 7y agoDo your know why the Spanish Flu was called this way ? Because Spain was one of the few countries not involved in WWI, and then didn't had the strong level of censorship that was ubiquitous at this time. Pressure to obfuscate the impact of the epidemic where way higher then.
- jeremyjh 7y agoYes but we know quite a lot about its spread and impact now. This is like the fog of war, its hard to see what is happening while a battle is underway but afterward many different accounts can be pieced together to gain an accurate understanding of what happened.
- littlestymaar 7y agoAgree, as I agreed with frank2's comment upthread too.