Not if the incubation rate was sufficiently long for the host to reproduce and provide new hosts. (View Post)

But how would we know about them? It wouldn't be enough to be noticeable given the size of the US / people just carrying on working despite being ill. The thing that shocked me was that there were 2 … (View Post)

Sooner or later we're going to be importing large numbers of cases from the US if they continue with the ostrich act they are currently engaged in. (View Post)

Indeed... I can trivially create a model which fits all the existing points you currently have and any future ones that you want it to hit with an R^2 of 1 (Polynomial of order n+y) but that is of no… (View Post)

Equally, they are all (in general) arrogant enough to think that they are comfortably above average for the cohort and so would survive a cull... (View Post)