Wow, Paul Romer unleashes on the FDA
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wrote on 26 Jun 2020, 20:23 last edited by Larry
Defund them and take down their statue!!
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wrote on 26 Jun 2020, 21:11 last edited by
(for those not familiar with him, he won the Nobel in Econ last year or the year before, and has been prominent in advocating a very heavy testing regime in lieu of test&trace. His wife is also a prominent economist and was in the Obama administration)
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wrote on 26 Jun 2020, 21:58 last edited by
Testing is of paramount importance.
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(for those not familiar with him, he won the Nobel in Econ last year or the year before, and has been prominent in advocating a very heavy testing regime in lieu of test&trace. His wife is also a prominent economist and was in the Obama administration)
wrote on 27 Jun 2020, 03:40 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Wow, Paul Romer unleashes on the FDA:
(for those not familiar with him, he won the Nobel in Econ last year or the year before, and has been prominent in advocating a very heavy testing regime in lieu of test&trace. His wife is also a prominent economist and was in the Obama administration)
Not sure I understand that. If you test someone, and they test positive, then I am sure that the government will do tracing to see who they were in contact with. Not sure how you can separate the two things (for example - having heavy testing but not tracing)
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wrote on 27 Jun 2020, 03:44 last edited by jon-nyc
He claims to show that of you test enough and people who test positive self isolate then it’s sufficient to keep R down to a tolerable level.
He assumes A LOT of testing. But his other assumptions were not unreasonable. I have not gone through it in detail but I’ve heard him speak about it at length.
He bases all this on the supposition that we can’t really pull off contact tracing due to people like the ones in the mask aversion thread among other reasons.
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He claims to show that of you test enough and people who test positive self isolate then it’s sufficient to keep R down to a tolerable level.
He assumes A LOT of testing. But his other assumptions were not unreasonable. I have not gone through it in detail but I’ve heard him speak about it at length.
He bases all this on the supposition that we can’t really pull off contact tracing due to people like the ones in the mask aversion thread among other reasons.
wrote on 27 Jun 2020, 04:08 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Wow, Paul Romer unleashes on the FDA:
He claims to show that of you test enough and people who test positive self isolate then it’s sufficient to keep R down to a tolerable level.
He assumes A LOT of testing. But his other assumptions were not unreasonable. I have not gone through it in detail but I’ve heard him speak about it at length.
He bases all this on the supposition that we can’t really pull off contact tracing due to people like the ones in the mask aversion thread among other reasons.
Okay, but if someone is not going to wear a mask, I think it is pretty low chance they will self isolate.
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wrote on 27 Jun 2020, 04:11 last edited by
True that.
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wrote on 27 Jun 2020, 09:50 last edited by
Kind of like the lady that tested positive and decided to come to her son’s graduation at our high school anyway. Not cool, Karen.
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wrote on 27 Jun 2020, 09:53 last edited by
Wow.
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wrote on 27 Jun 2020, 11:07 last edited by
Nothing like a pandemic to bring out the best in everyone