Coronavirus Pandemic

[Niall_Quinn]

And an even bigger surprise than the revelations from France, Letters is defending the establishment. This time by proposing events in an alternate reality justified actions here on planet earth. Very inventive, like the plot of the Terminator or something.

[Mac76]

f*ck, just heard that Stranglers keyboard player Dave Greenfield died from Covid-19

this virus can well and truly fuck off now - it allows a c*nt like Johnson to live and takes this guy away from us

[Niall_Quinn]

FROM or WITH?

[Mac76]

whaddever - just listen to the damn song

[Niall_Quinn]

whaddever - just listen to the damn song

Posted in the wrong thread.

Reported.

[Letters]

And an even bigger surprise than the revelations from France, Letters is defending the establishment. This time by proposing events in an alternate reality justified actions here on planet earth. Very inventive, like the plot of the Terminator or something.

Don't make me get out the hand puppets, this isn't difficult.

Models are imperfect, obviously. You cannot perfectly model how a disease will spread in a population of 70 million people.
The model in that paper predicted that 'x' people would die if nothing was done. If certain actions were taken it predicted that 'y' people would die.
Those actions were taken and the numbers being reported are in the ballpark of 'y'.

Would there have been 'x' deaths had those actions not been taken? We will never know. But there is no doubt that the actions taken have helped save lives. How many will never be known.

EDIT: Had no actions been taken and the death toll was 'y' of course then that would show the model was rubbish, but that isn't what has happened.

[Mac76]

Meanwhile... Fuckrage

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/n...2IGamQuL3OiDhE

[Mac76]

Posted in the wrong thread.

Reported.

now posted in music thread - case closed - nothing to see here, move on...

[Letters]

Posted in the wrong thread.

Reported.

Oh so you DO understand that things should be posted in the right thread!

[Niall_Quinn]

Don't make me get out the hand puppets, this isn't difficult.

Models are imperfect, obviously. You cannot perfectly model how a disease will spread in a population of 70 million people.
The model in that paper predicted that 'x' people would die if nothing was done. If certain actions were taken it predicted that 'y' people would die.
Those actions were taken and the numbers being reported are in the ballpark of 'y'.

Would there have been 'x' deaths had those actions not been taken? We will never know. But there is no doubt that the actions taken have helped save lives. How many will never be known.

EDIT: Had no actions been taken and the death toll was 'y' of course then that would show the model was rubbish, but that isn't what has happened.

LOL. How focused can we get in missing the point? This is pretty close to perfection.