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How do we know what is best for us? What and who should we believe? It kinds of remind me how Copernicus was banned centuries ago despite now we know he was closer to truth than anyone else. If we liv...
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> Who knows what using these plant medicines across a population would result in statistically?A lot of deaths:https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/07/02/dietary-supple...> The inspection reports p...
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Agree. They are a monopoly, and cannot be allowed to function like any old hosting platform.The WHO was wrong on many occasions during this pandemic. They said it couldn't or was hard to transmit be...
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I agree that they're generally have good advice. But, I looked at their mask guidance, and they're still recommending that healthy people do not need to wear masks.This ignores the possibility that pe...
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Did the WHO explicitly deny human transmission? Their earliest reports I saw said "we have no confirmed evidence of human transmission, but we are likely to find it". It's the second half of the sente...
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His actual speech (that Reuter's reported on).https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...The key sentence that Tedros is being criticised for is:"First, there is no reason for meas...
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Taiwan data was being counted with China's. This means that many of the early safeguards Taiwan was taking to protect their country was overlooked as it's effectiveness didn't show up in the global tr...
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> [2] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152Go back and actually read the full set of WHO statements in mid-January. They have a bunch of statements saying that nations should get prepared...
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> a very smart bloke with an honest-to-goodness PhD in a virus-related fieldHow do I embolden text on HN? When a person with a PhD is talking about something related to their PhD it is imprudent polic...
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How you read them is irrelevant. What's relevant is that hundreds of thousands of people read the first one, took it at face value, and decided that the coronavirus is not a threat. The WHO definitely...
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Not the only position that changed radically over time. Head of WHO in early March:> First, COVID-19 does not transmit as efficiently as influenza, from the data we have so far.> With influenza, peopl...
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From Lichtenstein's 2008 paper [1], mentioned in that article as the start of it:> Ultrasound has long shown its utility for plain organs.6 Although the lung has traditionally been excluded from its r...
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The normal range of each phase is described in https://patient.info/news-and-features/coronavirus-how-quick...The average is 5-6 days to show any symptoms. That is the figure that you are remembering...
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> The current count is ~21,000 with the number of confirmed daily cases declining for 6 days straightYes, but all of those 6 days are still higher than 7 & 8 days ago. In fact, all the days you picked...
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Looks like the breakdown in provision of care will happen before the end of April after all.https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1252836409406152709?s=21> NHK confirms that coronavirus-appropriate hospi...
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Quarantine measures were widely implemented in major cities during the 1918 pandemic, but at different times in response to different catastrophes and with a very different result in deaths per capita...
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"We took the measures that mitigated a disaster, therefore the disaster was never going to happen" is an idiotic opinion.A virus that spreads from close proximity with infected people, and y...
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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762028TL;DR contact tracing shows numerous cases of asymptomatic people that have introduced the disease to people near them....
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Here are the facts as we have them.From https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/japan/ Japan admits to about 10,000 cases now, with a doubling time of about 11 days so they will admit to 20,...
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This is just my 2 cents but according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries Japan has only done 923 tests for 1M of their population. That's much lower than any developed nation. One...
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