Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

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60% of the worlds population and not a single asian country in the top 100 by deaths per/1M population... amazing
Oh, a lot of the poorest probably don't have the infrastructure to capture cases and report them reliably.

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BTW I'm coming over to your side ... I'm wearing a mask in my sleep, moving to Vanatu, and not coming out of my hut until 2024

Please send free money and bourbon
Sorry, the islands are full enough as it is and like much of the world, they have kept safe by not allowing Americans to travel there.

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My last post of the night:

Super interesting article about super spreading based on the February Biogen conference. One infected person seeded an estimated 245,000 cases across US and Europe.


There is a review of this article here (yes, I know, CNN, but it's a good review and they don't blame Trump)


One of the key points is that the infected person came from Europe and likely there was significant community spread going on there for a while before. The west was screwed before many recognized this a "a thing."



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^^^ Are you saying that maybe the spread wasn't President Trump's fault? Say it isn't so :rofl:
Now THAT'S funny!

I'm just saying the review by CNN didn't go off on what you guys describe as a TDS rant; it was actually a good, sober, fact-based review of the Science article. I'll admit, I only skimmed the Science article briefly so far but will give it a good read over the holidays. No time before then. So I appreciated the summary article from CNN (though I did check some of the details to make sure they lined up with the Science article).

As we learn more data about the early spread of this thing, a few things become clear:

1. Trump's "China travel ban" didn't matter, as there were many circulating cases here already that hadn't emerged from the background enough to be noticed. Note I was a supporter of the travel ban and only wished at the time it had been more comprehensive...
2. The exceptions to the China travel ban (along my point of wishing it were more comprehensive) didn't matter.
3. The Pelosi "Come on down to Chinatown," which I understood as a pushback against the anti-Asian sentiments at the time, but which I always thought was a dumb idea during an obvious epidemic, remains a dumb thing to have done. Hindsight grants us clarity that no calls to cluster in urban areas should have been made... Chinatown, Little Italy, or anything.

The picture that is emerging is one in which it's obvious this disease was destined to spread like wildfire through a world where close contact and lots of travel were prevalent.
 

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Its all going to be OK. Kamala is here to save us. She'll invent a vaccine and we'll all be saved.
Does that statement have anything to do with Fauci assuring the black community that they can have faith in the vaccine because it was developed by a black woman??

 

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