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  1. #151
    Quote Originally Posted by CharSiuNow:
    I threw this in an Excel sheet with the number of corona cases per country per million inhabitants and got this (only taking countries with 100+ cases):


    So I agree: there is currently no indication from the numbers that there is such a correlation.

    (I wouldn't be completely surprised if scientists find such a correlation later though, because of course heavy smoking should affect the respiratory system.)
    BTW here's another (way too early) chart, with corona cases vs temperature:

    This is the relative number of corona cases (cases per million inhabitants) vs the temperature in February, again for countries with more than 100 cases.

    If I would have to guess, there's a higher correlation with temperature, than with smoking habits.
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  2. #152
    Quote Originally Posted by shri:

    A lot of map f'ery going on.
    What they're saying: When contacted by Axios, Lauren Gardner, an associate professor of civil and systems engineering at JHU who directs the map project, said that they had just caught the change and would be changing it back to "Taiwan" immediately.
    For sufficiently low values of "immediately" I guess.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kimwy66:
    Holy fuck, this had better be a mistake.
    Why?

    HK has only followed the measures taken by Beijing in terms of isolation from the rest of the country. Perhaps even less if you consider the Hub nature of the airport.

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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    Why?

    HK has only followed the measures taken by Beijing in terms of isolation from the rest of the country. Perhaps even less if you consider the Hub nature of the airport.
    Sorry, your point has eluded me.

    My surprise was at the ease with which organisations in the supposed 'land of the free' are so easily compromised by Chinese demands to politicise for a totalitarian regime that which should be unpolitical (data).

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    Quote Originally Posted by CharSiuNow:
    For sufficiently low values of "immediately" I guess.

    https://twitter.com/BethanyAl...65381788569603

    https://twitter.com/BethanyAl...74767273578498

    and the effects of capture of international organisations by an ideologically intolerant state are complete.

    Needles in your forehead next, anyone?
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    This makes for very interesting reading:-

    https://www.chp.gov.hk/files/pdf/flu...3_2020_eng.pdf

    If you look at page 7, despite the fact that everyone is wearing masks, staying home and there are increased hygiene and social distancing measures in place, 9 people in HK died of the Flu from Feb 16th - 29th, compared with 1 death of COVID-19 in the same period. This is also despite the flu vaccine being available and actually being administered to some of those who died. Why isn’t this in the news?

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    Quote Originally Posted by kimwy66:
    Sorry, your point has eluded me.

    My surprise was at the ease with which organisations in the supposed 'land of the free' are so easily compromised by Chinese demands to politicise for a totalitarian regime that which should be unpolitical (data).
    Yes, If the WHO can't be realistic with naming conventions for places due to pressures from the CCP why would they be honest with data. I can understand the need not to be overly critical of countries that are currently be active in slowing the spread of the virus. Their ire should be for countries that clearly are currently hiding issues.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AsianXpat0:
    https://twitter.com/BethanyAl...65381788569603

    https://twitter.com/BethanyAl...74767273578498

    and the effects of capture of international organisations by an ideologically intolerant state are complete.

    Needles in your forehead next, anyone?
    Who needs JHU anyhow? Their numbers consistent lag behind worldometer's; Now Total Confirmed- JHU= 119,132 / WM= 119,245

    Map is OK, but the CNA has a less dramatic one (although CNA's numbers lag even more)


    https://infographics.channelnewsasia...id-19/map.html



    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

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    Quote Originally Posted by statman:
    9 people in HK died of the Flu from Feb 16th - 29th, compared with 1 death of COVID-19 in the same period. This is also despite the flu vaccine being available and actually being administered to some of those who died. Why isn’t this in the news?
    Because the flu is already at global epidemic levels and already all over the city / world and humans have built up resistance to it so only once in about every 30 years does it mutate into a form with much higher death tolls.

    Covid19 in its currents forms has a death rate about 10x that of flu but possibly with much more severe long term effects such as pulmonary fibrosis. Recovery rates are still less than 70%. This new disease does appear to much worse than flu or TB the main infectiou lung based killers in the city.
    https://www.chp.gov.hk/en/statistics...6/43/6896.html

    How many cases of TB this year?

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    Italy- older than I thought.

    Apparently something like the second-oldest age after Japan.

    Average age of Italy's coronavirus decedents is 81! I did not know this.

    Yay for the Mediterranean diet I guess! And maybe old guys playing bocce ball, keeping in good health.

    There are lots more stats that could be published that would be nice to know instead of having to dig them out of a Time magazine posting on Yahoo...

    https://news.yahoo.com/why-italys-co...181829021.html


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