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2020-05-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Matt Ridley: We know everything — and nothing — about Covid

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 "Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it." - Larry Niven.

"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so" - Mark Twain

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-10 09:33|| 2020-05-10 09:33|| Front Page Top

#2 150 years from now: With what we now know about phenotypes, why did anybody listen to Fauci or Birx?

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-10 10:57|| 2020-05-10 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 None of Ridley's (otherwise intriguing, logical, welcome) analysts addresses why what ought to be America's COVID epicenter, San Francisco, has a death rate similar to that of Israel (1:30,000 pop.) - even though SF with almost 200,000 Chinese did no testing at all in the 3+ months when the disease was being spread by literally tens of 000s of traveler's arriving in SF on direct flights from Wuhan etc.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-10 11:19|| 2020-05-10 11:19|| Front Page Top

#4 As has been often said previously, if there were outbreaks in, for example, Butte, Montana, or Wabash, Indiana, or Bangor, Maine, but not NYC, LA, Bah-ston, or Hoboken, would we have shut this country down like we did? Would NYC, etc., stand for a lock-down if "only" in Butte?

Having said that, now we know why Pelosi was so eager to celebrate the Year of the Rat in SF, lol.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-10 11:35|| 2020-05-10 11:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Having said that, now we know why Pelosi was so eager to celebrate the Year of the Rat in SF
Empathy?

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-10 11:40|| 2020-05-10 11:40|| Front Page Top

#6 I thought they were celebrating Ratface ValJar's nomination to Uber's board?

Posted by Lex 2020-05-10 11:42|| 2020-05-10 11:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Empathy? No tellin' with that senile old bag.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-10 12:31|| 2020-05-10 12:31|| Front Page Top

#8 I meant with the Rats

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-10 12:33|| 2020-05-10 12:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Like I said, no telling with that senile old harridan. (LOL)

Posted by Clem 2020-05-10 12:36|| 2020-05-10 12:36|| Front Page Top

#10 remembering her Italian Uncle Vermine?

Posted by Lex 2020-05-10 14:12|| 2020-05-10 14:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Related: NYT article - apparently Yahoo News got behind the paywall.

BLUF: Lots of possibilities, nobody really knows, very confusing data across the world. (Sweden not mentioned.)

Posted by Bobby 2020-05-10 16:01|| 2020-05-10 16:01|| Front Page Top

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