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If we had the kind of lockdown they had in Wuhan, then I might agree with you. But one of the reasons Sweden didn't go that route was that they realized it was incompatible with their society. Maybe you need to familiarize yourself a bit more with what is actually going on in lockdowns in the...

The problem with table tennis is really that if one person is spreading the disease, you are exposed to them and their environment for a sufficiently long time that you are at a much higher risk of contacting the disease than if you were just walking through a crowd. Obviously, you are mixing...

This is the official position from the WHO - they don't know enough to say that reinfection is not a real possibility. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/25/us/who-immunity-antibodies-covid-19/index.html

BTW, I agree 100% that the American approach to public behavior when contagious diseases are around has to change. Hopefully, masks, handwashing and social distancing will be a staple of flu season and the police will figure out how to do their jobs with the new normal.

Right now, Nigeria is in lockdown. Unlike the US, Nigeria has mostly poor people who need to work to get their income. The oil prices are hitting the government hard since oil determines the exchange rates. The funny thing is that the lockdown is going on without really good evidence that the...

If most of the people who get infected recover without issues ( and this is the general wisdom surrounding this disease at the moment ), why would you prefer that people get prevented from going to work at all coat and 28 million people filing for unemployment to letting the disease spread while...

Herd immunity is one aspect of everything - even without heard immunity people survive the disease. Another aspect is that you can't control how the disease spreads forever in a lockdown other than to delay the inevitable. The funny thing is that we aren't even implementing serious lockdowns...

So how will a lockdown solve for that?

So in other words, none of the countries practicing lockdown managed to do better than Sweden. I know we love to write but the answer is simple - reducing the spread after the disease enters your country is unlikely to have good results unless you can eradicate the infection. What really works...

So which country which had a lockdown succeeded in protecting them? The point is that if the virus hits a nursing home, then that is what drives the problem. A lockdown doesn't address that problem directly. We will see in retrospect. The lockdown when discussed in terms exclusively of its...

Watch the video I just posted that is all I have to say. We can revisit in a year's time since you don't seem to grasp that there is a difference between mitigating strategies and locking down the economy especially when the population at risk is largely identifiable and protectable. No one is...

A data centric view of Covid19. https://youtu.be/qtrv-mCCOD8

https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/why-us-outsourced-bat-virus-research-to-wuhan/ Looks like another subtle strike in the international relations war.

Well, the politicians will take the credit anyways.

With all due respect, I think your argument is wrong. Nobody wants anyone to die, but once the diseases are in the system, locking down the economy has costs as well as benefits. To frame the lockdown exclusively in terms of the benefits without the costs is why your argument makes sense to...

I was pre-diabetic for many years and I wasn't broke. So my issue was being ignorant, Maybe I am a small minority but sometimes, you have to reach out to people. 34 million is actually a low number, a lot of people who don't think they are diabetic often are - it is estimated that only 12% of...

I think the problem is processing the ball - it takes an immense amount of computational power to estimate spin and ball trajectory and I think it is hard to dedicate enough of the brain to doing this as you get older and then automate reactions to be instinctive. I don't think the problems...

https://theconversation.com/blood-sugar-levels-may-influence-vulnerability-to-coronavirus-and-controlling-them-through-conventional-means-might-be-protective-136592 People continue to talk around the fact that metabolic issues especially those that have gotten worse with age are the #1 risk...

But can't they just use another drug to enable zinc to enter the cell? Something safer? We don't have to get too complicated if we know zinc works.

You mean Maradona's hand of God?