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This would be easier to heed if Trump didn't point the finger elsewhere at every opportunity. The finger-pointing at him seems to have gotten him to invoke the defense production act, so it does serve some purpose.

The main mistake is not realizing when you just disproved your own cosmology. ;-P On Flat Earth, the sun is said to move in a circle parallel to the surface, so it should appear to slow down as it is setting, and its path should curve sideways toward the north. I have filmed car lights from a...

Who caused the crisis in the US? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/testing-coronavirus-pandemic.html Dr. Robert R. Redfield, 68, a former military doctor and prominent AIDS researcher who directs the C.D.C., trusted his veteran scientists to create the world’s most precise test for the...

Do you know if they are in use elsewhere? The University of Chicago did a small study of them 4 years ago, and they're apparently clearly superior to face masks. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/helmet-based-ventilation-eases-respiratory-distress Researchers compared...

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3078120/china-rejects-claims-inaccurate-coronavirus-death-tally-wuhan Asked on Wednesday about reports in China of thousands of funeral urns and long queues at funeral homes in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, [Chinese] ambassador Lu Shaye told...

What they really should be measuring is the phone and not the tower -- the inverse square law makes the transmitter you have near more powerful than the one far away. Or is that not true with 5G?

Do you think that the number of Covid-19 cases in the elderly in China is generally under-reported, or just the deaths? Because the case fatality rate that China has reported for the old and very old matches what we're seeing elsewhere so far (except maybe Italy). The big problem is that we...

Your claims are provably FALSE. https://www.who.int/csr/don/05-january-2020-pneumonia-of-unkown-cause-china/en/ Pneumonia of unknown cause – China Disease outbreak news 5 January 2020 On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown...

First, note that people are complaining about not getting tested everywhere. You can't test everyone with a cold, there aren't enough tests for that, in any country. Patients are selected on whether they are actually at risk of having been infected, or when they have serious clinical symptoms...

Agreed. The question "what would it take to change your mind?" is also useful.

Could you elaborate on that? Also, can we pin down the claim? Is it During the February outbreak, there were more Covid-19 related deaths in Wuhan than officially reported, because a) China knowingly provided false numbers? b) China abstained from diagnosing Covid-19 deaths in an effort to...

You can say with 90% confidence that the case fatality for the population that this group is a sample of ranges from 0.6% to 10.1%. Well, the fomite quote is, "these data cannot be used to determine whether transmission occurred from contaminated surfaces", which means it's not clear whether...

A little scepticism is probably warranted. The red curve is Czechia up to march 21st, and the dashed regression curve is based on that data. The green part extends that data over the past 10 days. I've put Spain and France in to compare Czechia's rate of spread to a baseline, and I've put Japan...

They seem to not have taken any precautions except not shaking hands. Sitting in chairs a foot apart isn't proper distancing. I had a small event that week with 30 people, we were mildly cautious, standing further apart than normal and not shaking hands, but it probably wouldn't have stopped...

Hmm. A source close to the provincial civil affairs bureau said many people had died at home, without being diagnosed with, or treated for, COVID-19. This would be obvious if those people were not, in fact, infected. People who die of "old age" die at home, without being diagnosed with Covid-19...

I've just spent some time looking into Japan, since Tokyo is the largest city on the planet, and the Japanese don't have a lot of cases and don't test a lot: they say they're not undertesting, but we'll see. Japan is interesting because initially their curve looks like they had a lower...

Yep. All those liberal doctors, telling you smoking impairs your lungs. It's a conspiracy! And the evil WHO is in on it! I expect that the medical advisors are aware that banning smoking has a positive effect on the health issues that could impact a patient's ability to cope with Covid-19. WHO...

For yesterday, the ECDC worldwide data has just 4 countries reporting a combined ~6000 cases less than the day before: France, Spain, the US, and Italy. This means this could be an artifact of how these countries are reporting; they're currently reporting 60% of the world's Covid-19 cases...

"Sixty singers showed up." "Health officials said all 28 choir members who were tested for COVID-19 were found to be infected. The other 17 with symptoms never got tested, either because tests were not available or — like Comstock and Owen — the singers were under the impression that only people...

They have an EUA out now to disinfect N95 masks with Hydrogen peroxide vapor, which makes them reusable up to 20 times. Hopefully that helps with the NY face mask shortage. I want to talk about test again. Germany is doing close to 500 000 test per week, and those tests are done by big labs on...