VolnJC
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This is totally out of hand at this point. People are freaking out about healthy people, even those who are A symptomatic, testing positive. Everything is better then where we were in March. What the hell do some of you want? A complete economic collapse? That will kill far more then this virus. Pull your head out of your collective asses.
Damn, did he pick the wrong pony or what?
I've said this so many times, I'm tired of repeating myself. HCQ does not work by itself. It's likely only effective when used as part of a cocktail along with Zinc and a Z-pack. After awhile I get the impression that studies like this continue just so misinformation can be spread. Seeing as this was done by Vanderbilt, that's not surprising. They still think Jay Culter was a good QB
In summary: you can do 1000 studies that show HCQ alone are ineffective but it means zero scientifically as to whether a cocktail of HCQ+Z-pack+Zinc is effective. One more thing: Trump took the cocktail, not HCQ alone
I know MontyP ignored this post of yours. Don't know why.First, where in any of that did I contradict CDC/WHO/Fauci?
Let's go back a bit.
You are citing a case fatality rate of 5.4%, and then saying "if you are infected, you have a 5.4% mortality rate." That is a basic conflation of CASE fatality rate and INFECTION fatality rate. They are fundamentally different unless you are measuring (cases are measured infection) EVERY infection. the upper limit of the iFR is the CFR.
Furthermore, the 0.1% for flu is a SYMPTOMATIC fatality rate (the portion of infections that become symptomatic). This is what the CDC material makes clear if you read it. If someone casually refers to it as something other than the sFR, they are technically incorrect. You can take the same official CDC numbers and calculate the flu CASE fatality rate and see that it was 4% last year. That's a meaningless number, but that is what it was.
And in most discussions, that technicality isn't all that important. But, in this discussion - it is critically important. Because we are comparing numbers between diseases....and in one case taking the sFR and the other taking the CFR (which is higher than both the iFR and the sFR). Eventually we'll be able to model out CV19 and get a better estimate on its true iFR. Antibody testing is a good route to that. And from the early work, it seems like the number will end up being around 0.3%.
Please continue this dialogue because you are making some mistakes in your interpretation. I'm sure of it. I don't know if they are purposeful or not. But, I'd love to iron them out.
Which is sad that the Republican party didn't put up a second candidate. All trump would've had to do was say no to a second term, and there couldn't be any questions about a lack of trust in himHe didn't want to be elected the first time, and he doesn't want to be re-elected.
It's nothing motivating him now other than stubborn pride.
Repeat after me: Travis is a liberal who is trolling conservatives. Travis is a liberal who is trolling conservatives. Travis is a liberal who is trolling conservatives.
NGV and I have been on a little road trip . I can tell you without one shred of doubt that if I wasn’t convinced of the overreaction before yesterday and today .. I am 100% sold on it now . We brought masks and I not only have yet to put one on ( I’ve asked do we need one to come inside and was told no ) there not a single person wearing them in any place we’ve stopped at so far in 4 different state . We will go to our 5th state tomorrow . After this trip, I’ll not ever buy into the panic and fear peddling . EVER!
NGV and I have been on a little road trip . I can tell you without one shred of doubt that if I wasn’t convinced of the overreaction before yesterday and today .. I am 100% sold on it now . We brought masks and I not only have yet to put one on ( I’ve asked do we need one to come inside and was told no ) there not a single person wearing them in any place we’ve stopped at so far in 4 different state . We will go to our 5th state tomorrow . After this trip, I’ll not ever buy into the panic and fear peddling . EVER!
Be careful out there. @evillawyer said we would be averaging 3,000 deaths per day by June 1.
