Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Interesting data from a Wuhan virus petri dish Date:   3/20/2020 9:00:32 AM (updated 3/20/2020 9:22:27 AM)

Well I thought my point was pretty straight forward but I will state it again.  The data from the cruise ship should give us some optimism that given the reaction to the virus maybe we will be far better off than the prognostication of doom we hear every day on the news.  As for your comment about the small sample, new drugs are approved by the FDA every day that are tested on fewer human study participants.  I deal with data, math and science every day and like to apply facts, logic and reason and leave emotion out of it.  This data from this study to me is encouraging and unlike the Archie's of the world I can still see reasons to have hope instead of hoping for the worst.

As for the politicians, you can be sure that their reaction is being driven by politics as much as always.  They are going to present the worst case scenario because to do otherwise would be political suicide.  And as Dr. Birx correctly pointed out yesterday we will be seeing a spike in confirmed cases because there is a spike in testing.  I have been saying this for some time because it is logically correct.  Ergo, a spike in confirmed cases cannot be used to make projections about the rates of infection.  To do so is scientific malpractice....which means the media will find someone to carry that water for them.  

All the prognostications of doom serve one valuable purpose.  They will hopefully get people to take the recommendations by the CDC seriously and I hope they do so we can get back to normal as soon as possible.  And let me guess, Archie probably readily agreed with you although I can't see it because I have him on ignore.