In which jon-nyc stakes out an unconventional opinion on the Covid-19 outbreak
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wrote on 3 May 2020, 17:09 last edited by
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wrote on 3 May 2020, 17:25 last edited by
I must admit I have no idea what your prediction was. My frame was hospital utilization and deaths i.e the crisis in NYC. Obviously you are talking about something else.
The real key is if summer has impact. At one point Fauci expressed confidence it would die down with warmth and come back in the fall. I have no idea what the current thought on a pause due to weather is.
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wrote on 3 May 2020, 18:05 last edited by jon-nyc 5 Mar 2020, 18:12
@jon-nyc said in In which jon-nyc stakes out an unconventional opinion on the Covid-19 outbreak:
My logic from above:
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our shutdown measures were insufficient to get the reproductive rate down below 1. That was based on data from Wuhan and Europe.
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a sharp drop in R but to a level greater than 1 will only lead to a temporary decline in cases/deaths, then they start rising inexorably from a new, lower base.
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the temporary decline will be interpreted as victory and will lead to a loosening of mitigation measures, which then increases the reproductive rate even more.
That was my logic above. Unfortunately it seems to be playing out.
Another specific prediction was:
When we look back from, say, the end of the year, we will not see April as the month with the most cases or the most deaths.
All this was stated in the second week of April.
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 19:12 last edited by
CDC expects 3k deaths per day in May.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/internal-cdc-models-project-3000-daily-covid-deaths-by-june-1/
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CDC expects 3k deaths per day in May.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/internal-cdc-models-project-3000-daily-covid-deaths-by-june-1/
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 22:32 last edited by
Hi. Posting from NYC. Same tag as before.
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 22:32 last edited by
Hey man! Long time no see!
How's the fam?
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 22:39 last edited by
Good. You? Thought of you recently. Nice stats/science posting!
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 22:42 last edited by jon-nyc 5 Apr 2020, 22:42
Hanging tight, you know I moved to Westchester, no? I think I last saw you at the boy's birthday party maybe a year before we moved.
He'll be 11 next month. Your oldest is a teenager by now, right? 15?
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 22:46 last edited by
Yes. We now have three.
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 22:48 last edited by
Eldest goes to one of the Specialized HSs. Thriving with lots of friends.
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 22:50 last edited by
What is your take on the open up stuff? I suspect actual mobility among the population is not that different. Under shelter in place some people push the edges, under open for business many stay home.
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 22:52 last edited by
Hong Kong is interesting. High density, subways, near Wuhan. 5 fatalities. Near universal mask wearing. Maybe miracle technology is a mask. Just speculating.
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 22:59 last edited by
Larry disappears, Jeffrey appears.
Coincidence?
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 22:59 last edited by
New Zealand, Taiwan, Hong Kong. Island pandemic success stories. Any landmass success stories? Greece, Finland? What worked and what didn’t. I am surprised there is not more country comparison analysis to guide future policy.
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 23:01 last edited by
Copper - How are you? I’ll try to post like Larry. He had a distinctive literary style. Can you still fly? You were/are an amateur pilot, no?
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 23:03 last edited by
Larry and Jolly disappeared at the same time, so NS's theory that they're the same person has been vindicated.
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 23:07 last edited by Copper 5 Apr 2020, 23:07
I became a commercial pilot and flight instructor and bought a few planes. I taught for about 10 years. Last year I moved to southern Virginia and it has been over a year now since I've flown. I might still get hooked back up. I have kept my instructor certificate and medical current.
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 23:11 last edited by
Really cool.
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wrote on 5 May 2020, 01:25 last edited by taiwan_girl 5 May 2020, 01:38
There was a recent Rand report which tried to look at the "strength" of a lock down versus the number of deaths and versus the economic impact.
Obvious, that the higher strength the lockdown, the less deaths, but more economic impact.
I believe that they were using a economic impact of one life = $10 MM USD.
The conclusion was that there was a pretty bad payback for decreasing teh strength of the lockdown. In other words, the decrease in economic impact was not greater than the increased loss of life.