COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[SWP's back]

Hopefully she's as accurate as the other expert Ferguson the we have based our response so far on. I do wonder what the agenda is from people like this woman making perfections such as this to try and keep people scared.

She’s not trying to scare anyone. She’s wanting the infrastructure to be in place ahead of time.

 

[BlueAnorak]

meanwhile a former director of the WHO is claiming we may not need a vaccine as the virus could burn itself out .

torygraph are reporting ....

An outlier, one who believes we may have already got to 65% with the 40% whose imune system somehow deals with the virus without generating B and T lymphocyte cells.
Very optimistic I think.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Total opposite of what I read yesterday which was when other experts have tried to make sense of his data it was described as 'a mess' and if a business had produced such analysis they would go bust. The guy has a history of failure yet we allowed him to dictate our response. Probably the biggest failure of the whole episode for me.

I read the headlines but didn't read the article. Could it be a case of horribly flawed projections but have somehow got to the right result as I'm sure his projections on either doing nothing, social distancing and entire lockdown haven't been far off reality at this stage.

I think it's important to look at the positive news as well and I try do do that where I can, see Professor Karl Sikora if you're looking for that and I genuinely like listening to him because he improves my mental health a bit. But that doesn't simply mean we should disregard what very qualified people are saying just because we don't like it. Her prediction is in line with many others and isn't based on just a gut feeling but by comparing it to how other Coronaviruses act.

Ignoring her and others like her is dangerous.

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

'All signs point to the virus hitting hard in winter'. How does she know what's going to happen in the next 8 weeks never mind 5 months.

Probably listening to the science again!

 

[grunge]

Hopefully she's as accurate as the other expert Ferguson the we have based our response so far on. I do wonder what the agenda is from people like this woman making perfections such as this to try and keep people scared.

Her agenda seems to be to suggest we need to be prepared. why is that a problem?

 

[Cityfan]

'All signs point to the virus hitting hard in winter'. How does she know what's going to happen in the next 8 weeks never mind 5 months.

She's a professor of public health , she might not know what is going to happen in the next eight weeks but she probably does know what signs point towards a winter epidemic of a respiratory disseminated infection.

 

[mexico1970]

She's a professor of public health , she might not know what is going to happen in the next eight weeks but she probably does know what signs point towards a winter epidemic of a respiratory disseminated infection.

She's against shielding as a strategy, many on that Twitter feed are against her for her stance on that.

 

[grunge]

meanwhile a former director of the WHO is claiming we may not need a vaccine as the virus could burn itself out .

torygraph are reporting ....

“burn it’s self out” also known as natural herd immunity when pretty much everyone has had it.

 

[Cityfan]

She's against shielding as a strategy, many on that Twitter feed are against her for her stance on that.

I don't do twitter and am only vaguely aware of some of her opinions, however whether she is right or wrong on shielding my point remains that she should be reasonably knowledgeable about factors likely to cause an upturn in infection rates.
Not suggesting she can be certain there are a lot of unknowns still about this virus.

 

[Manc in London]

She’s not trying to scare anyone. She’s wanting the infrastructure to be in place ahead of time.

That was my reading too. Although, I felt that I may be biased due to me finding her attractive. :)