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Post by lcjjdnh on Feb 13, 2020 13:42:55 GMT
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Post by Da Man on Feb 13, 2020 13:46:15 GMT
I started a book from a couple years ago about animal-to-human virus transmission. It’s by David Quammen, a three-time National Magazine Award winner who apparently specializes in this weird niche field. Interesting so far. Also, fuck bats.I wouldn't. You might catch something. |
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Post by batman on Feb 13, 2020 17:18:11 GMT
That's one way to enforce a quarantine.
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Post by Da Man on Feb 13, 2020 17:49:37 GMT
That's one way to enforce a quarantine.
Should that be recorded as a coronavirus-related death? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2020 20:33:18 GMT
No problem at all here with the Chernobyl of illnesses. China’s Coronavirus Figures Don’t Add Up. “This Never Happens With Real Data.”For instance, the number of deaths reported appeared to correspond to a simple mathematical formula to a very high accuracy, according to a quantitative-finance specialist who ran a regression of the data for Barron’s. A near-perfect 99.99% of variance is explained by the equation, this person said, referring to a statistical measure known as r-squared. That’s a fancy way of saying that the data updating the number of deaths was almost perfectly predictable. “This never happens with real data, which is always noisy,” the person said.
China’s U.S. embassy didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Barron’s re-created the regression analysis of total deaths caused by the virus, which first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of last year, and found the same variance. We ran it by Melody Goodman, associate professor of biostatistics at New York University’s School of Global Public Health.
“I have never in my years seen an r-squared of 0.99,” Goodman said. “As a statistician it makes me question the data.” |
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Post by Rejected by the Rejects on Feb 16, 2020 17:16:24 GMT
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Post by lcjjdnh on Feb 17, 2020 7:59:19 GMT
This seems...less than ideal.
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Post by YankeeFan on Feb 20, 2020 22:30:23 GMT
This is probably fine.
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Post by lcjjdnh on Feb 23, 2020 3:14:19 GMT
Iran. Italy. Sounding like the chances this will be contained are getting worse.
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Post by lcjjdnh on Feb 23, 2020 12:08:28 GMT
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Post by YankeeFan on Feb 24, 2020 0:25:51 GMT
DJIA futures are down almost 350 points, as fears that the Coronavirus really will cause some damage to the economy.
It's done well to shake it off so far, but I have to wonder what's next if things don't start improving soon.
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Post by YankeeFan on Feb 25, 2020 3:14:15 GMT
Does Germany think they share a border with Italy?  |
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Post by YankeeFan on Feb 25, 2020 12:56:08 GMT
This is pretty wild.
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Post by YankeeFan on Feb 25, 2020 14:55:39 GMT
Does the idea of the Coronavirus getting a foothold in Mexico or Central America make anyone else glad that our President has taken steps to secure our Southern border?
It's exactly this kind of situation that turned John Kelly into an immigration hawk when he was in charge of the Southern Command.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2020 15:01:43 GMT
Does the idea of the Coronavirus getting a foothold in Mexico or Central America make anyone else glad that our President has taken steps to secure our Southern border? It's exactly this kind of situation that turned John Kelly into an immigration hawk when he was in charge of the Southern Command. LOL. Thousands of flights have gone from China to places all over the world (including the U.S.) and many of them are still continuing, and you're worried about the virus taking hold in Mexico. It's more likely that our spring break tourists introduce the virus in Mexico than that Mexican immigrants introduce it here. Good fear-mongering, though. You must have some serious hate sites on your Twitter feed. |
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