Crowknowsbest

The odds of another team facing those three programs in a row are extremely low....

[quote]To achieve herd immunity on a r0 virus of 2.0, 60% of the population has to acquire the bug. If the fatality rate is 2%, are you willing to bury 4.2 million people,,,,and if you are, where you going to bury them all?[/quote] That’s not what would happen, both because the fatality rate isn’t ...

[quote]The callousness of this post is astounding.[/quote] The point of this post is that young people have been callously sacrificed for all of human history....

[quote]How will that ever get added in? You think tens of millions of people are going to go get blood tests to see if they have antibodies?[/quote] Competent sampling could get this done easily, but our nation’s leaders are proving to be unfamiliar with that concept so far....

[quote]I am willing to work an extra month or two before retiring to keep them alive.[/quote] Imagine the naïveté to think this is the societal fix for economic meltdown....

[quote]Are you saying you believe that thousands of human lives are worth losing to prevent an economic downfall? [/quote] Economic downfall has a very real human cost, including lots of deaths....

Because society is better adjusted to sending young men to die....

[quote]Some view Kirby Smart as Mark Richt. Just a better recruiter and that is it.[/quote] Those are people who are either too lazy or too dumb to evaluate situations and performance on a case-by-case basis....

[quote]Like they were given the players that were on the team and won it all?[/quote] In Larry Coker’s case, yes....

Way over...

[quote]Kirby once thought we should put a border around the state and no one trashed him for it [/quote] That’s a press conference applause line....

[quote]They are using refrigerated trucks as a morgue in NYC. Maybe not bodies in the street, but I'd say that is definitely out of the norm and cause for concern. [/quote] They had 13 covid deaths that day. While I’m very sorry for the family and friends of those who passed, the “apocalyptic” desc...

[quote]Our lethality estimates remain unchanged. [/quote] :lol:...

[quote]It seems like someone would have figured it out by now.[/quote] Sweden is going the other direction. Only quarantining at risk people. I suspect this is a global cover-your-ass move. These are political decisions, and it’s easier to defend a strong response. It’s easier to spin no matter ...

[quote]What happened now could have been much worse.[/quote] How much worse? It’s impossible to know because data collection was so amateur. [quote]My point is the major steps taken are helping.[/quote] They are helping with the spread at an enormous societal cost. This is a balancing act, and...

[quote]I think the miss on testing from the CDC will go down as one of the biggest blunders on a total dollars cost in US history.[/quote] The strategy of using tests only on your likeliest and sickest patients has seriously hindered the US and other countries’ ability to make good risk/reward deci...

[quote]we're in the first inning of this[/quote] If it’s actually as contagious as they say, we aren’t in the first inning. This was widespread in a major Chinese city in November....

[quote]We try to use evidence-based measurements[/quote] What a concept...

[quote]Or you might get placed on a vent.[/quote] Maybe, but I’m in my late 20s with no pre-existing conditions. Probably less than 0.1% mortality for me, most likely have mild symptoms at most. That’s a pretty easy call just looking at risk and reward....

The slightest effect? Sure. That’s not a high bar....