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Science & Technology
Diamond Princess Mysteries
2020-03-18
WUWT via Instapundit
OK, here are my questions. We had a perfect petri-dish coronavirus disease (COVID-19) experiment with the cruise ship "Diamond Princess". That’s the cruise ship that ended up in quarantine for a number of weeks after a number of people tested positive for the coronavirus. I got to wondering what the outcome of the experiment was.

So I dug around and found an analysis of the situation, with the catchy title of Estimating the infection and case fatality ratio for COVID-19 using age-adjusted data from the outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship (PDF), so I could see what the outcomes were.
Lots of informative graphs. Conclusions: maybe Lex is right - in strictly epidemiological terms. But, these are not the only factors to consider.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#1  I'm sorry but there is no way on God's green earth that we are facing a pandemic if a bleedin' cruise ship has only a 20% infection rate!

A cruise ship has absolutely everything required for everyone to be infected in short order: thousands living in close quarters, intimacy, shared dining area, recirculated air, handrails that everyone touches many times every day...

This is not a pandemic.
It is a Dem [-stoked] Panic.

And it us causing VASTLY mire destruction, and will cause vastly more misery suffering and loss, than this somewhat nastier version of the flu could ever cause.

Shame on our media liars, on the Chinese criminals, on ourselves for stoking this madness.
Posted by: Lex   2020-03-18 18:54  

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