Bobby. wrote on Mar 3
rd, 2020 at 6:24am:
Mr Sad
Quote:For someone who quotes Carl Sagens famous extraordinary evidence line in your signature, you seem to go out of your way not to live up to it.
We're not being told the truth on the
news so as not to cause panic.
What I've seen and read from the experts is that containment has failed, it's time to move to the next phase. And on that, they've been saying that the current death rates are overblown due to the mass under reporting of confirmed cases as there are lots of people without any symptoms or they're so mild that they have not even seen a doctor.
Yes, the elderly should be worried and I hope aged care facilities have been making preperations in the time China bought the world by going into lockdown.
It is likely that it will be the mode widespread virus in terms of infections given how effective at transmission it is, but, it is too early to tell if it will be as deadly as the fear mongers and panic merchants (trying to cash in on fake news, clicks and "survival kits") are telling us it "IS".
Then there are the crackpot conspiracies making things even worse and the US President trying to politicise the issue and he and the VP seemingly asleep at the wheel after defunding many of the agencies whose job it is to deal with these sorts of pandemics.
There will be a big jump in cases as many contries are improving their detection but that spike doesn't mean things are out of control, it will just be a sign of better detection. And with that better detection, we'll see the death rate lower.
Quote:I know that during a previous flu
outbreak I couldn't get Tamiflu
as prescribed
medicine but I read that the Govt
had stockpiled it for themselves.
I call bullshit on you being prescribed Tamiflu. You may have chosen to try and buy it because you were in a panic, but that's beside the point.
Your claim was that drugs to treat AIDS/HIV are being used to treat COVID-19 yet you don't post anything to support that, just the same quote that you're also attributing to "therefore it
must be man-made".
Where is the extraordinary evidence?
Has Tamiflu been shown to be an effective treatment?
I know of one patient in Thailand, an elderly woman, that was treated with a drug combination called lopinavir/ritonavir approved to treat HIV under the brand name Kaletra n combination with the flu drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu).
It was reported on February 18, 2020 that an elderly Chinese woman, the first patient to receive the "Thai cocktail" in Bangkok's Rajvithi Hospital, had made a complete recovery after suffering from severe COVID-19-related pneumonia.
I don't know much else about it since then.
I'm sure Government's around the world have stockpiled supplies for elected officials under the banner of "keeping a functional Government" and while that's important, they also need to worry about the people.
But if you're going to quote Sagan, at least try to love up to it.