Melbourne stage 4 lockdown and GA
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Originally Posted by Sunfish
What you didn’t know was that the virus responsible for this problem was a single strain until I passed that on to you on 5 August.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-...ourne/12471916
The Age 3 July:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/v...03-p558og.html
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Originally Posted by Sunfish
My advice was (a) it was a single strain, and (b) it was a shocker as far as transmission went.
Your theory of (b), this variation being the most infectious, has been doing the rounds with scientific institutes since the pandemic began. This theory can never be proven - it's not ethical to test the virulence of different pathogenic strains on humans. Anecdotal evidence is not enough to determine virulence.
I'm not a virologist either - I did work for DHHS for around 10 years in Brett Sutton's Public Health Branch. I no longer work there.
Sunfish, peer reviewed doesn't mean, "an unqualified person on an anonymous pilot forum is certain that this will pass muster"
Surely you would have learned critical reading and paraphrasing before you did your PhD on epidemiology?
There is nothing in the abstract or title of this preprint, (which was done on sample n=903 about three months before the quarantine breach) that indicates "Latest advice is that the Melbourne outbreak is caused by a mutation that makes its C19 strain the most infectious so far on the planet."
Surely you would have learned critical reading and paraphrasing before you did your PhD on epidemiology?
There is nothing in the abstract or title of this preprint, (which was done on sample n=903 about three months before the quarantine breach) that indicates "Latest advice is that the Melbourne outbreak is caused by a mutation that makes its C19 strain the most infectious so far on the planet."
It’s clear you’re here for some kind of self gratification.
Facebook would be much better for you to use, because you can see how many likes you get live and you don’t have to keep posting back saying how you were right and waiting for everyone to agree with you. You can also see who pressed like.
Plus your warning about how this is the worst mutation in the world would have reached a larger audience, rather than just a few pilots on a forum.
Facebook would be much better for you to use, because you can see how many likes you get live and you don’t have to keep posting back saying how you were right and waiting for everyone to agree with you. You can also see who pressed like.
Plus your warning about how this is the worst mutation in the world would have reached a larger audience, rather than just a few pilots on a forum.
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Originally Posted by Squawk7700
It’s clear you’re here for some kind of self gratification.
Facebook would be much better for you to use, because you can see how many likes you get live and you don’t have to keep posting back saying how you were right and waiting for everyone to agree with you. You can also see who pressed like.
Plus your warning about how this is the worst mutation in the world would have reached a larger audience, rather than just a few pilots on a forum.
Facebook would be much better for you to use, because you can see how many likes you get live and you don’t have to keep posting back saying how you were right and waiting for everyone to agree with you. You can also see who pressed like.
Plus your warning about how this is the worst mutation in the world would have reached a larger audience, rather than just a few pilots on a forum.
Originally Posted by Sunfish
Do you think I made it up Squawk?
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Just close this thread, it's just Sunfish demonstrating his over inflated sense of self worth, and the trouble when you fight with an idiot is they bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Squawk and others, So we start with disbelief. Then we attack the message. Then we attack the credibility of the messenger. Then lastly at #147 we do an absolute backflip and say I’m jeopardising the employment of someone who told me something?
‘Mate, doesn’t that completely contradict what you said earlier? Since I’m obviously (according to you) talking BS, exactly whose employment could I be compromising?
I don’t particularly care if I am regarded as an unreliable source, I am not a virologist. However I can be trusted to report what I was told, along with four other people.
‘Mate, doesn’t that completely contradict what you said earlier? Since I’m obviously (according to you) talking BS, exactly whose employment could I be compromising?
I don’t particularly care if I am regarded as an unreliable source, I am not a virologist. However I can be trusted to report what I was told, along with four other people.
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Originally Posted by Sunfish
However I can be trusted to report what I was told, along with four other people.
An absolute fact is that your sources can't ever prove that the predominant strain currently in Melbourne is more infectious than any other. To say say it is (whether you're simply passing on hearsay or not), is disingenuous.
Originally Posted by Sunfish
However I can be trusted to report what I was told, along with four other people.
