03-12-2020, 03:03 PM
negative percentage of Hawaii population testing (oops
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Please feel free to point this out - I'm too tired to try and interpret and hunt it down (although I think it might be that testing 250 people a week does not even keep up with the 350 new births each week?)
I don’t get the aljazeera link. That people are dying? Of course. How does fetishizing mathematical predictions change what will happen?
If people understand what 10x more deadly than the flu means they might actually consider taking the steps necessary to prevent many of these deaths. Math tells you where things are headed so you can take steps to bend the curve, change the path, improve the outcome. The advise might be the same but who would consider upending their entire way of life without any evidence given for why?
I can’t choose how this plays out in the USA or Puna
Your actions directly influence the outcomes, especially locally. By not going shopping, drinking, eating, movie watching, and every other frivilous public activity you are helping to not transmit this virus to many others. Small reductions in mixing of people have large differences in the final death tolls.
To not even bother to try is indulging in fatalism at the expense of other people's lives.
I will be arguing ten days from now (locally) for school closure
Makes a lot of sense given the hundreds of public school closures on the mainland in response to COVID-19. Has anyone heard what the Department of Education's plans are?
) Please feel free to point this out - I'm too tired to try and interpret and hunt it down (although I think it might be that testing 250 people a week does not even keep up with the 350 new births each week?)
I don’t get the aljazeera link. That people are dying? Of course. How does fetishizing mathematical predictions change what will happen?
If people understand what 10x more deadly than the flu means they might actually consider taking the steps necessary to prevent many of these deaths. Math tells you where things are headed so you can take steps to bend the curve, change the path, improve the outcome. The advise might be the same but who would consider upending their entire way of life without any evidence given for why?
I can’t choose how this plays out in the USA or Puna
Your actions directly influence the outcomes, especially locally. By not going shopping, drinking, eating, movie watching, and every other frivilous public activity you are helping to not transmit this virus to many others. Small reductions in mixing of people have large differences in the final death tolls.
To not even bother to try is indulging in fatalism at the expense of other people's lives.
I will be arguing ten days from now (locally) for school closure
Makes a lot of sense given the hundreds of public school closures on the mainland in response to COVID-19. Has anyone heard what the Department of Education's plans are?