It’s pretty terrifying that such a huge portion of our populace was lapping up the presidents and Fox news “liberal hoax” and “deep state” talking points. And obviously there are STILL a huge number of MAGAs out there that are considering this thing paranoia, overreaction, straight up fake, etc. even after Fox and the Presidents late pivot to it actually being a big rough ridin' deal. KSU-W is certainly not alone. Apparently a majority of my home town is as well based on strictly anecdotal Facebook data. Probably just a vocal MAGA minority but very discouraging either way.
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There's a big difference between saying this is a hoax and wondering if the draconian measures are worth it.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/John P.A. Ioannidis is professor of medicine, of epidemiology and population health, of biomedical data science, and of statistics at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford’s Meta-Research Innovation Center.
There is plenty that is not perfect about his model (just like all of the models that others have been posting), but the issue still remains that we are self-inflicting a lot of harm with a lot of uncertainty whether or not the harm is worth it.
Earlier in this thread catastrophe stated that what we are doing would not be worth it if the deaths were less than the seasonal flu. That's an interesting position to take, but I'll give him credit for taking a position. Regardless, it illustrates that saving human lives is not the end all be all when it comes to decision making. We could implement the harsh measures we are implementing now and save more lives from the flu every year. However, we don't and we end up sentencing more people to death. The only thing that people disagree on then, is how many lives (and I would say it's QALYs vs lives) make different actions worth the costs.
