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> We are in a pandemic and scientific consensus should require randomized trials. The entire pandemic has been politicized, science be damned when it doesn't c

• dehrmann 6y ago
  What if I said the pandemic is more of a political issue than an epidemiological one? A year of restrictions (or not) for a .5%-1% IFR disease is a political decision.
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  • Uberphallus 6y ago
    That's the expected IFR granted everyone gets proper healthcare access. Roughly 10% of those infected require hospitalization, and you can't just put anywhere close to 10%, or even 1%, of the population in the hospital at any given time. Those resources simply don't exist. It also affects IFR of anything else that requires a hospital. If I get severely sick with COVID-19 (or literally anything else) where I live at the moment, I won't get a normal healthcare access. I'll need to get airlifted elsewhere. We're at 120% ICU occupation rate. Most of the deaths here are happening during transfers to other areas. It's seriously concerning that we have to repeat this after a year.