Continued decreases in daily deaths figures looks promising. I had a play with numbers over the weekend to try to get a curve to see how the deaths (in hospitals in England) will continue to decrease… (View Post)

(FPT): Continued decreases in daily deaths figures looks promising. I had a play with numbers over the weekend to try to get a curve to see how the deaths (in hospitals in England) will continue to d… (View Post)

Too many people seem to want yes/no all-or-nothing outcomes. "If we can't do x, we should go back to normal and just bury our loved ones when the time comes..." There are so many optio… (View Post)

Does - does Hitchen thinks that if we'd ignored it, the coronavirus would just have... sort of... gone away? That can work for attention-seeking toddler tantrums, but this is somewhat different. (View Post)

No, it's really not. It is, if anything, the worst moment to do stuff like that. The core economic lesson from pandemics seems to be that pandemic-induced recessions can be of two natures: - Nea… (View Post)