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It tells you a lot of the level of expertise in a country, if a physicist like Viola Priesemann previously not involved in any kind of disease modelling is able
by orbifold 5y ago
It tells you a lot of the level of expertise in a country, if a physicist like Viola Priesemann previously not involved in any kind of disease modelling is able to be a significant voice in the national conversation. The 'experts' that are listened to are either numerically illiterate like Drosten or non-experts in disease control like Priesemann. Moreover the actual tools and quality of code that is used to model the situation are so far away from what would be ideal it is laughable.
- hef19898 5y agoYou really think Drosten and Priesemann decide measures? That's politicians, the government decided on it. If I remember well, scientists were worried when hospitalization was declared the only truth. And the RKI predicted the forth basically down to a T, they were a couple of weeks of so. Doesn't matter because they predicted, along with Drosten, already during summer.
- orbifold 5y agoI think there is an expert vacuum that was filled by opportunists and enabled politicians to decide non-sensical measures. Compare that to the situation in Taiwan, where the vice-prime Minister is an epidemiologist.