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The context is clear from anyone who cares to refer to it. So is the difference between 0.2 and 2. And anyone who knows anything about COVID (i.e. anyone vaguely literate who has been alive during the last 12 months) knows that, unlike being hit by a bus, there is a significant delay between cause and death, so comparing yesterday's new infections with today's reported deaths, even if you get the arithmetic right, is meaningless.Anyway I'm sure the world of politics has a use for someone with an idiosyncratic approach to statistics. Just not in an important area like science of public health. Maybe the next Republican administration.
Another word from the world of statistics. Do you know what it means? Or why it is irrelevant?
I used to work in a Statistical Department. We made most of our figures up. To meet what the Head of the Department wanted.to see.
Quote from: alancalverd on 21/02/2021 17:21:13Another word from the world of statistics. Do you know what it means? Or why it is irrelevant?I used to work in a Statistical Department. We made most of our figures up. To meet what the Head of the Department wanted.to see.
Quote from: Petrochemicals on 19/02/2021 19:04:31Quote from: chemhat1999 on 19/02/2021 10:40:31Quote from: Petrochemicals on 08/01/2021 23:40:18Once again, I can't go for an unnecessary drive in a car, can't play golf, can't go and see someone else in their garden, yet I can go indoors to a church, can send a child to nursery, and can order from the internet businesses with industrial sweatshops. It was the same a month ago, during the last lockdown, which strangely enough failed to dent the spread of corona. It is a complete waste of my time, and is patently unfair. At least this time they have bothered to shut the schools.I would like to refer to the aspect you mentioned about sending children to nurseries.I come from Gemany, and nurserys were shut down due to high infection rates. Believe me, closing nurseries should be one of the last options. A lot of parents here in Germany are in a crisis, since a lot of them can`t go to work because they have to babysit their children. And a lot of people who would love to hire a nany can`t afford it. Not every company allows or is suitable for Home Office, which leads to a lot of adults being unable to work to sustain their families. I am by no means trying to be insulting here, but it just lit a spark in my heart. But the infection rates came down quite drastically compared to the UK did they not ?Well I can agree, that the Numbers went down way quicker in comparison to UK.But I wouldn`t necessarily explain it with the shutting down of nurserys. It is told, that the risks of infections in nurserys is way lower, than in other institutions (at least in Germany even from the national television). Of course, most deffinetly prevents some infections, that is without doubt. But the damage the families take is just too big. For parents AND the children.The small ones are supposed to be socialising and learning from other people. They absorb so uch information this way. Especially in their life-phase where they develope so quickly.
Quote from: chemhat1999 on 19/02/2021 10:40:31Quote from: Petrochemicals on 08/01/2021 23:40:18Once again, I can't go for an unnecessary drive in a car, can't play golf, can't go and see someone else in their garden, yet I can go indoors to a church, can send a child to nursery, and can order from the internet businesses with industrial sweatshops. It was the same a month ago, during the last lockdown, which strangely enough failed to dent the spread of corona. It is a complete waste of my time, and is patently unfair. At least this time they have bothered to shut the schools.I would like to refer to the aspect you mentioned about sending children to nurseries.I come from Gemany, and nurserys were shut down due to high infection rates. Believe me, closing nurseries should be one of the last options. A lot of parents here in Germany are in a crisis, since a lot of them can`t go to work because they have to babysit their children. And a lot of people who would love to hire a nany can`t afford it. Not every company allows or is suitable for Home Office, which leads to a lot of adults being unable to work to sustain their families. I am by no means trying to be insulting here, but it just lit a spark in my heart. But the infection rates came down quite drastically compared to the UK did they not ?
Quote from: Petrochemicals on 08/01/2021 23:40:18Once again, I can't go for an unnecessary drive in a car, can't play golf, can't go and see someone else in their garden, yet I can go indoors to a church, can send a child to nursery, and can order from the internet businesses with industrial sweatshops. It was the same a month ago, during the last lockdown, which strangely enough failed to dent the spread of corona. It is a complete waste of my time, and is patently unfair. At least this time they have bothered to shut the schools.I would like to refer to the aspect you mentioned about sending children to nurseries.I come from Gemany, and nurserys were shut down due to high infection rates. Believe me, closing nurseries should be one of the last options. A lot of parents here in Germany are in a crisis, since a lot of them can`t go to work because they have to babysit their children. And a lot of people who would love to hire a nany can`t afford it. Not every company allows or is suitable for Home Office, which leads to a lot of adults being unable to work to sustain their families. I am by no means trying to be insulting here, but it just lit a spark in my heart.
Once again, I can't go for an unnecessary drive in a car, can't play golf, can't go and see someone else in their garden, yet I can go indoors to a church, can send a child to nursery, and can order from the internet businesses with industrial sweatshops. It was the same a month ago, during the last lockdown, which strangely enough failed to dent the spread of corona. It is a complete waste of my time, and is patently unfair. At least this time they have bothered to shut the schools.
I think that we shouldn't have done any "lockdowns". We should've just let the virus run its course.We'll have to do that in the end. All this flim-flammery of lockdowns is just a futile attempt to stave off the inevitable.We can't beat the virus. It's too microscopic Face-masks won't block it.. It will get everywhere. And infect everyone.It's just Nature's way.
We can't beat the virus. It's too microscopic
The vulnerable could have shielded without the general population,
Face masks clearly do not work.
We should've just let the virus run its course.
Seriously, this government using the words save lives,https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56200739in the face of nurseries schools and workplaces remaining open, whilst saying I will kill if I play golf is a paradox
And cricket itself is subject to an odd prejudice. My schoolteacher son was allowed to coach tennis but not cricket last summer. Why?