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Avoiding the trap of sacrificial math : Comments

By Robert Reed, published 9/4/2020

Must we pit the health of the economy against the lives of the many people projected to die if strong measures are not taken against the spread of the coronavirus?

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Dear COVIDstanis

Slightly off thread but on COVID, behold my latest work of poetry.

THOSE COVID DAYS OLD FRIEND

Sung by a positively Welshy Bonnie Tyler, with some handy Norwegian subtitles: http://youtu.be/6_vQEpdd83I

Yesterday I wiled away the hours
Dreams of young fresh lazy days with you
Once we had our sunny lives in Dapto
Then red smoky days left us feeling blue

These lonely days my friend
I hope they quickly end
No song and dance
Forever and a day
Don’t live the life we choose
Survive on chips and booze
These lonely days, oh squalid COVID days

La la la la la la ...

Then the dizzy years went rushing by us
We lost our toned bodies on the way
And when at last I see you at the Bowlo
You technicolour yawn and run away

These lonely days my friend
I hope they quickly end
No song and dance
Forever and a day
So tragicly like yobs
Dentures in our gobs
These lonely days, oh misspent COVID days

La la la la la la

Just tonight I stood before the mirror
Nothing fits the way it used to be
In the glass I saw my fat reflection
The product of too much Easter choclatee

These lonely days my friend
I hope they quickly end
No song and dance
Forever and a day
Don’t live the life we choose
Orthotics in our shoes
Those lonely days, oh bl--dy COVID days

La la la la la la

To the door I hobbled in my slippers
I heard your voice familiar through the years
Through the grill I smell the reek of kippers
And now I see you Botoxed to the ears

These lonely days my friend
I hope they quickly end
No song and dance
Forever and a day
Don’t live the life we choose
Survive on chips and booze
These lonely days, oh effing COVID days

cry cry cry cry cry cry

by Pete
(Some words courtesy http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/maryhopkins3.shtml )
Posted by plantagenet, Saturday, 11 April 2020 2:41:09 PM
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Whoops

Some other sheila was singing the words.

Here's the real positively Welshy Bonnie Tyler, singing my song with some handy Norwegian subtitles http://youtu.be/gnjusvjK5Qk

Pete
Posted by plantagenet, Saturday, 11 April 2020 2:51:51 PM
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0.37% according to http://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/09/999015/blood-tests-show-15-of-people-are-now-immune-to-covid-19-in-one-town-in-germany/
Posted by Luciferase, Saturday, 11 April 2020 7:17:22 PM
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"The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is not for profit rather is giving money away to combat this. How are they personally benefiting? Loopy stuff mate."

Bill's spending billions building 7 x BSL5 labs and wants mandatory vaccinations for everyone.
He's the second biggest donor to the WHO.
He cares about depopulation and intellectual property.

We're going to have to look at all these things.

Watch this one.
Boom Info on Maeve Kennedy, Birx, Gates - CORRECTED
http://youtu.be/zoK6h4Mg7E8
Posted by Armchair Critic, Saturday, 11 April 2020 8:11:59 PM
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FYI http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3Ws1GOiBRfwtr2iO6svS7W7xUS-hVdx4crF2zKFV5xvCVktk_38P3MLiU
Posted by Luciferase, Saturday, 11 April 2020 11:26:52 PM
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Statistics are slippery things. Daily figures don't matter when we are looking at averages. Would there be fewer deaths in the long run if we protected vulnerable groups, and allowed the virus to spread quickly so we could develop some kind of herd immunity? This was the approach taken in 2017 and it's what some experts are saying now.

After all, the dream of a vaccine for coronavirus may be slightly overblown. And once the lockdowns are lifted in 12-18 months the virus may simply spread once more, and we will be back where we started, but with the added disaster of self-inficted economic destruction and concomitant human suffering.
Posted by Jay Bee, Sunday, 12 April 2020 11:56:04 AM
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