Saturday, April 25, 2020

"Millions of cases; small amount of death"

I spent an hour watching this and found it rather compelling.

Two practicing doctors - specializing in immunology and microbiology - who are trying persuade the governor of California to end their lock down. This is the press conference they called on Wednesday last week.

7 comments:

Daz said...

Do you think the extrapolation of current testing results out to population levels is accurate enough? It seems to me to be something we desperately need a much better handle on. I think we must know the community prevalence rather than just incidence.

Lindsay Mitchell said...

To answer your first question, No. But it is what they have right now. And it's much more than they had 4 weeks ago. As they say, "The truth is changing every two hours". (Which is far more than our leader is prepared to admit). Based on their current testing they don't believe the response to covid is warranted. The secondary effects of the response are worse and I think their case is compelling.

oneblokesview said...

It seems to me that media are ""picking their experts"" a bit like the NZ Government.

I have to agree with the rational thinking of Thomas Sowell.
Thomas Sowell
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For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

Andrei said...

Can you believe this - Youtube have pulled this video "for violating community guidelines"

Lindsay Mitchell said...

Thank you Andrei, That is friggin' unbelievable. More than anything else - more than a new virus - that action shows us what dangerous times we now live in

Lindsay Mitchell said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R54b0pq56A

Public health disagrees. Fine but to shut down any informed (I hate that word) dissent is disgusting.

Andrew said...

Seems to have been re-loaded - wonder how long this will last before being taken down.
As the comments point out, people are prepared to keep posting it despite YT continously taking it down:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25m0fm2LSIg