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Ok, this article is incredibly bad and I want to list the reasons why: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/494034-the-data-are-in-stop-the-panic-and-end-the-total-isolation?amp&__twitter_impression=true">https://thehill.com/opinion/h...
Fact 1: the death rate being that low is estimated from the Stanford study which is questioned by other researchers because of their methodology (see link) and is not consistent with other studies https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/04/21/scientists-widely-criticize-studies-that-claim-coronavirus-death-rate-could-be-far-lower-than-believed/">https://www.forbes.com/sites/car...
Arguing that the death rate is 0.1% when literally over 0.1% of the population of NYC is dead doesn& #39;t seem like a great idea.
It& #39;s ok though. Fact 2 outlines how NYC hospitals didn& #39;t run out of space because the disease doesn& #39;t effect young people. Except about 40% of those hospitalized were under 54 years old.
That& #39;s also ignoring the fact that many were turned away from the hospitals because of the capacity constraints in a city that is younger than the rest of the country. Thousands of people died of Coronavirus in their homes. This should not be what we are looking for as an example
Also, this is not really important but the article keeps saying stuff like 1% per 100,000 people which doesn& #39;t really make sense and is either deliberately misleading or more likely just because the writer doesn& #39;t understand basic statistics
People like the idea of spreading it and getting herd immunity. The issue is that we don& #39;t know what that means. This could be the flu and people could get it multiple times within months. We don& #39;t know yet.
"just let those at risk be careful". Those at risk are like people in nursing homes. Or our grandparents that live in our homes. If someone healthy gets the virus in either of these areas, there is almost no way of knowing and no way of preventing the other people from getting it
If you want to quarantine everyone that is possibly at risk over the next year, you end up with almost half the population when you include those with obesity, diabetes and asthma. More than that if you include people living with those that have these conditions
Another side note: if you& #39;re making the argument with data, you gotta have more information about one of your main arguments. How many people are dying from these "non-essential" healthcare practices?
Also, ending you article with "facts matter" and being on a high horse of "the data is in" is really bad if you are gonna ignore any facts that contradict your claims and make baseless arguments that don& #39;t include relevant data in three of your 5 points
Last tweet. It looks like in general it& #39;s not as deadly as we thought. However, if we let it spread rapidly, it becomes more deadly because of the stress it puts on the healthcare system, which is what caused NYC (and other similar areas) to turn bad and have high deathrates
