thinkabit,

I wasn't seriously suggesting we compare PNG to Australia or anywhere else for that matter. I was just mocking SR's moronic claims that you can compare death rates over time or place without being aware of and adjusting for actual population numbers.

His claims were so inane and his understanding so poor that it was clear that I wasn't able to explain the error to him. So mocking it was the only recourse.

Again oh deary me mhaze,

You were the one who got pulled up on touting total numbers when you weren't.

You were the one who said my figures were inaccurate when your guru used exactly the same source.

You have been shown to repeatedly get virtually every aspect of the Corona virus completely wrong.

You a thread titled "What if it is all for nothing?" and touting your revised figures of potentially 20,000 for the UK and 100,000 for the US. The toll so far is over 5 times that.

Every assertion you have made about Sweden completely falls apart when we line it up with the other Scandinavian countries.

Misstep after misstep yet you keep going.

Your ideology has you promoting repeated lies. How about a little self reflection.

SR whined:" You were the one who got pulled up on touting total numbers when you weren't."

Well I was talking about total numbers, just not the total figures you'd prefer. That you struggle to understand why your raw figures are misleading says it all.

SR showed his lack of understanding of the written word by saying "You [had?]a thread titled "What if it is all for nothing?" and touting your revised figures of potentially 20,000 for the UK and 100,000 for the US. The toll so far is over 5 times that."

I wasn't touting those numbers merely pointing out they were the then current estimates. Anyone with even a modicum of reading skills would get that.

But yes, I did wonder out loud almost a year ago whether the lockdowns worked. I'm rather chuffed to find that as the data improves and the figures come in, my insight has proven to be on the money.

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Did you notice how the current 'unexplained' WuFlu cases in Queensland DIDN'T cause governments to immediately institute lockdowns as has happened previously. I'd put that down to two reasons:

1) the QLD/WA elections are over so the population doesn't need to be scared into compliance
2) governments have realised lockdowns are useless - although they'll never actually say so and, therefore, their useful idiots will continue to believe they work - won't they SR?.

Dear mhaze,

On the money? Well that couldn't have been further from the truth if you tried.

The Scandinavian experience shows the power of lockdowns to prevent wide spread infections and deaths full stop. No twisting of figures be those as ideologically tainted as yourself will ever change that.

If you and your ilk had gotten your way we would have well over 50,000 deaths in this country. You are dangerously deluded but thankfully in a very small minority.

The China virus has seen us subjected to the biggest inroads on our our civil liberties for over 200 years. Young, healthy people have been locked up, lost their livelihoods to protect people of my generation, who should have been protecting themselves, as I have, and allowing the rest of society to keep operating.

There's obviously no "rethink" on lockdowns, with another 72 hour one for Brisbane on the way, and the lunatic in WA again closing the border to Queensland.