It's the perennial media problem. The media aren't in the business of providing information; they're in the business of grabbing our attention. Drama, certainty, outrage, fear, anger, … (View Post)

I wouldn't be saying "there's an acceptable level of deaths from covid." It is that the damage caused by restrictions (and we all agree that restrictions cause damage, which is wh… (View Post)

However, there was no option of "just continue as we were." As @rcs1000 has pointed out, even in states or countries where that was tried, the effects of restrictions were applied unofficia… (View Post)

It's not even about deaths any more. The CFR is now down to 0.3%. That's literally at the level the covid denialists pretended it was at all along; vaccines have made it come true. It impli… (View Post)

As to what metrics should be used to make the decisions on when to further relax restrictions in England and how far (or, to the contrary, but in my current view, highly unlikely - when and by how mu… (View Post)