Wow, Paul Romer unleashes on the FDA

[Larry]

Defund them and take down their statue!!

[jon-nyc]

(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)

[Horace]

Testing is of paramount importance.

[taiwan_girl]

@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)

[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.

[taiwan_girl]

@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.

[jon-nyc]

True that.

[LuFins Dad]

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.

[jon-nyc]

Wow.

[bachophile]

Nothing like a pandemic to bring out the best in everyone