[stupac2]

There will be severe long term damage to the US and world economies based on decisions being made by local, state, and federal bureaucrats.  Taking the approach most likely to save the most lives isn't always the best approach.  If it was, we wouldn't be driving cars.  I am not a medical doctor or a scientist of any kind, so I will defer to Stanford's co-director of Meta-Research Innovation Center and professor of medicine, biomedical data science, statistics, and epidemiology and population health.

Why "defer" to one expert when other experts disagree?

Because that's the one person telling him what he wants to hear.

I wonder what Mr Ioannidis's reaction to this chart would be:



That's at about a 40% daily growth rate. Doubling every 2 days. If that doesn't bend we're talking about 500k cases by April 1, and 20 million cases by mid-April. I wonder what the economic damage from millions of deaths would be...

[stupac2]

There will be severe long term damage to the US and world economies based on decisions being made by local, state, and federal bureaucrats.  Taking the approach most likely to save the most lives isn't always the best approach.  If it was, we wouldn't be driving cars.  I am not a medical doctor or a scientist of any kind, so I will defer to Stanford's co-director of Meta-Research Innovation Center and professor of medicine, biomedical data science, statistics, and epidemiology and population health.

Why "defer" to one expert when other experts disagree?

Because that's the one person telling him what he wants to hear.

I wonder what Mr Ioannidis's reaction to this chart would be:



That's at about a 40% daily growth rate. Doubling every 2 days. If that doesn't bend we're talking about 500k cases by April 1, and 20 million cases by mid-April. I wonder what the economic damage from millions of deaths would be...