JoeWaster

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• Commented on Public appearances in a time of pandemic
  @charlie: We got incredibly lucky with SARS and MERS. I think you might be a little dismissive towards those who fought (With success) against those viruses. They were/have been almost contained. There were a lot of of people working in...
• Commented on Public appearances in a time of pandemic
  Re: The main problem with chloroquine is that it is so old that it is nearly useless as an anti-malarial Not so sure, anecdotally: I was in India in 2005 and got Malaria. Chloroquine sorted it quickly. (Helps that the...
• Commented on Public appearances in a time of pandemic
  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/ Gives a good breakdown of deaths by age... based on WHO China report....
• Commented on Public appearances in a time of pandemic
  Re: serious cases Unless I’m reading it wrong and that stat is current rather that total ......
• Commented on Public appearances in a time of pandemic
  Looking at the stats for deaths & serious case here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ The numbers seem to be roughly the same, suggesting if it’s serious, it’s fatal. That might make a difference to the worry of health system collapse - ie. it’s...
• Commented on COVID-19
  From the BBC: "take it on the chin" and allow it to "move through the population without really taking as many draconian measures", Mr Johnson said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51749352 I.e. let people die to protect GDP....
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
  ‘How high is Britain?” Sea Level, I’d say, but then there are questions about MSL and time of day/tides. The easiest would be to define Britain at height 0m, and then it’s everyone else’s problem to figure out theirs......