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Covid 19 virus
SparkyFX:
--- Quote from: Rick Law on April 02, 2020, 11:59:13 pm ---As they update the projection, may be it can return to be a useful tool.
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This is a force of nature, the numbers can stem from observations, but slight deviations in several factors make huge differences in 2 weeks time. It is not as if you can plan how such a virus spreads or prepare within short amounts of time.
--- Quote from: paulca on April 03, 2020, 11:56:13 am ---[...]If they rush drugs and vaccines and they end up doing wide spread harm it will vindicate the anti-vaxxers, strengthen their movement and also enflame the anti-science disease that has been spreading. Ultimately that could throw us into another dark ages.
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It is not as if anti-vaxxers needed reasons or evidence, or had a concerted effort other than spreading misinformation and selling snake oil. They probably ignore actual cases because it would constitute that the source of information can actually be trusted, although they told otherwise for ages - or lose the integrity they never had.
There are risks, otoh there are rules in place because of it. I mean a vaccine by definition is meant to prevent damage, so people producing them should be used to the thought that this would be a bad idea to throw rules overboard. Rushing might in their circle just mean that they have the highest priority at this and not let bureaucracy have this laying around too long, have staff on every role that is needed and so on.
It sometimes is really just the wording and how people interpret it by themselves, often just to save ones face.
DrG:
--- Quote from: BravoV on April 03, 2020, 12:52:12 pm ---Interesting statistics by countries due to Corvid19 collected by Google.
-》 https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
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They drill down to local levels even, e.g., US State and County. Really interesting and potentially valuable for providing measures of NPI, especially with the pre and post data. Modellers bonanza I would think.
BravoV:
--- Quote from: DrG on April 03, 2020, 01:29:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: BravoV on April 03, 2020, 12:52:12 pm ---Interesting statistics by countries due to Corvid19 collected by Google.
-》 https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
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They drill down to local levels even, e.g., US State and County. Really interesting and potentially valuable for providing measures of NPI, especially with the pre and post data. Modellers bonanza I would think.
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Really curious how details and in depth of the population data, that Google owns right now.
NiHaoMike:
What about let the "virus party" idiots be beta testers of the vaccine in exchange for getting permission to party? (Note that it is voluntary - they have the option to not get the vaccine and discontinue partying.) While we're at it, let's use prisoners as alpha testers in exchange for time off their sentences.
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: BravoV on April 03, 2020, 01:34:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: DrG on April 03, 2020, 01:29:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: BravoV on April 03, 2020, 12:52:12 pm ---Interesting statistics by countries due to Corvid19 collected by Google.
-》 https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
--- End quote ---
They drill down to local levels even, e.g., US State and County. Really interesting and potentially valuable for providing measures of NPI, especially with the pre and post data. Modellers bonanza I would think.
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Really curious how details and in depth of the population data, that Google owns right now.
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Completely unsurprising seeing as it has been demonstrated that you can in practice fool Google into thinking there's a traffic jam just by walking a small trolley full of Android phones around the streets of Berlin.
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