Hi Alison,

You might get a kick out of this article abstract on what the authors call tribal thinking:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1047840X.2020.1721233

It precedes an entire issue on a similar subject, of which this one is also a beauty:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1047840X.2020.1722580

One writer quotes Joubert, 1883: "It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."

That ought to be OLO's motto :)

Cheers,

Joe

mhaze,

I think this is as definitive as there is right now across a broad demographic: 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/

The demographic data (from where I took a 0.2% estimation) is here: http://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/. There seems a fit with the 0.37% figure from the site further above.

Aidan,

The possibility of testing, tracking and isolating our way out of this is miniscule when we must presume half the cases are asymptomatic: http://geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/04/13/what-the-rest-of-the-world-can-learn-from-icelands-mass-coronavirus-testing-project/?fbclid=IwAR20TSi-22VQRk97E83VUaonMrwDAOsp_kxl0RXicU1qxcsPI2YpOLYPCLA

I've read also (links abound) that the virus is shed from those recovered for some time, even weeks.

SARS was contained because it was only infectious when symptoms were obvious and the need to isolate was obvious. Testing will need to go beyond the symptomatic cases, so how long is your piece of string?

Whatever, your (Australia's) approach will simply slow the inevitably of herd immunity being attained while freedom and the economy are crushed.

Chinese people will eat anything even dogs cats, rats and bats, for the sake of money, what kind of people are they.
https://u.to/6OdNFw

What the hell do you think we ate vancrideout, before we became rich enough to only eat the preferred animals.

It is not much more than a century ago that English sailors were scrambling around in the holds of sailing ships to catch rats to add to their weevily biscuits to make dinner more appetising.

Loudmouth, its interesting stuff, but I ain't going to pay to read the articles.

I for one like debate, as long as its respectful and not just pointless sniping, which seems to dominate about 75% of the comment posts… which is a shame, as the authors obviously put so much effort in to writing the stuff,... irrespective of whether you, I or others agree with their opinion, they deserve pertinent comments, as apposed to bitchy childish sniping.

before we became rich enough to only eat the preferred animals.
Hasbeen's totally right on that one. One just has to watch one of those over-the-top cooking competitions on Tv during which we are bombarded with ads for the starving !