Yes, exactly the reason for my suspicion, just as the gov can interfere
with our hobby so it can massage these virus figures.
Tremendous political opportunity taken to its extremes.
But enough, back to rockets,GG's,etc,etc.
K
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 7:38 PM Rand Simberg <simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Off topic, but all the people who would have normally died of flu were
diagnosed as having, and having died of Covid. Not to mention people who
died skydiving...
On 2/25/21 7:31 PM, roxanna Mason wrote:
What looks suspicious though is the nearly zero Flu cases, < 1K when it
usually is >50K.
K
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 6:41 PM Norman Yarvin <yarvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 02:44:13PM -0700, BrianK ABQ wrote:
Oops, right you are. Wrong link. Though the flu article is worth a read.
Note that it (or rather the first article in the 3-part series) now
bears a retraction notice -- though there's still an interesting,
well-grounded story there when one strips away the hype, fear, and
suspicion: a lot of people are testing positive by the PCR test but
with high Ct numbers, most probably because they'd been infected much
earlier and never got a test; this is just residual virus, likely
dead.) So the real status of the pandemic is better measured by
hospitalizations or deaths than by infections. (The Ct number is the
number of doublings before the sample lights up as positive, so
roughly the logarithm base 2 of the viral RNA concentration, or rather
the negative logarithm.)
Oh, and in another 'I would never have expected them to do something
so stupid' move, the Ct number is not allowed to be reported to
doctors or patients in the US.
(I don't think we need another big coronavirus discussion, but this
seemed worth mentioning.)