Comments by "N Marbletoe" (@nmarbletoe8210) on "Coronavirus, US and Africa" video.

  1. Maybe they already had it and recovered, in which case a mask confers no advantage to them or others.
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  2.  @curve5746  This isn't Trump and it isn't "liberals." D and R are equally to blame -- but not today's idiots. . The fires are from 100+ years of mismanagement, starting with kicking the natives out, who used to burn every fall.
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  3. The PCR test definitely does not pick up other coronaviruses. It detects the actual RNA sequence of the virus, and they test for the part that is different. . It could have false positives of course, but these must be less than 0.6% of the tests, as shown in the Icleand random invitation survey.
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  4. The companies logged all the big timber. Then they left the aftermath for the rest of us to pay for. It's a right or left wing issue, it's about companies externalizing costs.
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  5. The native cultures in CA and all over the Southwest used to burn every fall, and this modern fire phenomenon could never happen.
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  6. What map? . I have heard the fires are in BC as well. You might be looking at a map of only US fires.
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  7. The media is trying to get people on the "right" and "left" to fight. . It is the old divide and conquer strategy. The media is not on either side, nor on the side of the country. .
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  8. Viruses don't travel as single virions. They travel in droplets, which can be stopped by masks -- mostly.
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  9. Guardian isn't far left, but I agree it is often far away from truth. . If they were far left they might have covered Bernie in 2016 and this year, but they ignored him just like other corporate news.
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  10. Perhaps they were hospital workers, not admitees.
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  11. Trump isn't in charge of the numbers. . The reason we can't trust the numbers is because nobody (no state in the US) is doing it right. There are no regular random surveys.
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  12.  @mac_mcleod  Without a random sample survey in the USA, we don't know the prevalence. We can guess it's about 10% but that's a guess, right? I would guess the same. . How a nation can manufacture Josephson junctions and be unable to conduct basic statistics, I will never understand. . The Sturgis study was not peer reviewed and did not seem convincing. The evidence was circumstantial, and the time period covered the return to school as well as the end of the rally. The county by county breakdown simply did not support the hypothesis. Cost estimates assumed every case went to the hospital.
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  13.  @mac_mcleod  To estimate numbers, we need scientific surveys. . The way we do that is to use random sample protocols, once a month at least. . The UK has been doing that, but not my country (the US), so we're flying blind here.
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  14.  @mac_mcleod  I agree with all you say. . My campaign is to bring science to the poor nations like the USA who do not use random sampling protocols. . Perhaps Sweden can donate some statistics textbooks to under-paramerized children in the USA so one day they can grow up to calculate p-values and join the civilized world. (joke)
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  15. Yes but most of the fire is on federal land. It's not just one state or county, or even one country. . Wherever indigenous cultures have been destroyed by invasions, vital knowledge and practices have been lost. They used to burn in the forest every fall in the southwestern USA.
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  16. I haven't heard of any forced quarantine in the USA for the general public. Maybe if you are in the Navy...
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  17.  @curve5746  Another good thing is that the public will be behind controlled burns even more now, I expect.
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  18.  @sogley  I agree the fires are not political. The ground is dry. . On the other hand, the Guardian is one of the worst papers I have seen for science coverage, so I'm unlikely to even click much less believe them. . Guardian articles have claimed that China is working on "faster than light communication" and that plants in New Jersey grow "without water or light."
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  19.  @nightlymoth  :)
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  20. Why do places with lakes have lifeguards.
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  21. My cousin in Portland (on the coast) said the air is horrible. .
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  22. It is mismanagement, but it's mainly federal. Both Republicans and Democrats -- and Whigs for that matter -- ignored the native knowledge and banned burning. This is the result of 100 plus years of it.
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