Oh, don't get me wrong. I couldn't agree with you more. That post was to show people the silliness of coming to conclusion on mortality rates before we do the proper randomized testing of the population in the proper sample sizes and with a stratification that allows for extrapolation to the population. Right now, the data is still muddied.
What I'd like to see is not just more testing for COVID negative or positive. That's still a selectively biased sample of people who have the symptoms of cough, shortness of breath, and chest pains. This is not a properly randomized sample, so it cannot be extrapolated.
We need COVID testing in randomized samples. We also need antigen/antibody testing in random samples. The first bit will tell us who has it now and who does not have it now. The second test will tell us did they have it at some time in the past. This is very important. We may already have millions who had mild or no symptoms and are already immune. Or they may still have it and be carriers. We don't know, because we're aren't doing randomized sampling in a scientific way.
So when people tell me we have a 3.8% mortality rate, I have to call bullshit. This is just speculative, and yet, we've shut the economy down and put millions of people out of work and destroyed their lives on speculation! This is the height of irresponsibility.
The Democrats say Trump acted to slowly, and yet, Trump acted sooner than anyone else to cut off flights from China and Europe, even when the Democrats called him racist and xenophobic. He made the hard decisions. But then he kowtowed to the so-called medical experts and shut down the economy based on their armageddon speculations, not based on hard science. This is going to have massive consequences, including the deaths of millions from poverty related ailments in the decade to come.
In a free, Democratic country, we should not be implementing the solutions that come from Communist Dictatorships like China. We should have charted our own path that is far more nuanced and respecting of people's right to live their lives the way they choose. |
