Tom, you really should be aware that the NY Times, apart from being completely unable to tell the truth on any subject, is also completely unable to analyse data or statistics. (To be fair, this applies to most of the media, which is largely innumerate).
As for this particular issue, it becomes more obvious with each passing day that millions of people contracted this virus without displaying any symptoms. My understanding is that when extrapolated, the numbers that tested positive in Iceland suggest that 50% of their population contracted it.
The whole thing is a bigger scam that post-modernism and climate change – or at least the response to climate change – combined.
I’d like to think you are right, but really I don’t think you are. According to the report cited below, “Although fewer than 1% of the tests came back positive for the virus, the company’s founder Dr. Kári Stefánsson told CNN that around 50% of those who tested positive said they were asymptomatic.” They have not done antibody tests, so do not know how many people may have had the virus already without being aware. But you’d need to be an extreme optimist to think that half the population may have already had it, given that there are 1,086 confirmed infections in Iceland and 927 people currently in isolation, while more than 5,000 have left quarantine, out of a population of c364,000. On a rough estimate, doubling the number of confirmed/suspected cases to account for those who had no symptoms, it suggests to me that about 14,000 people there have the virus or have had it, so under 5% of the population.
Tom, so many (including me in January) think they already had Covid it’s a bit surprising there isn’t a widespread poll to find out unless i haven’t seen it. MORI did a poll but it’s sample was quite small – about time the ball got rolling?
John Burnett
4 years ago
It is clear from the German research that this Virus is not as dangerous as first believed. They even believe that it is becoming less threatening with time. The West needs to open up its economy and it should be upto the vulnerable including myself to self isolate. The loss of income and aspirations of the young is not a reasonable policy.
Tom, you really should be aware that the NY Times, apart from being completely unable to tell the truth on any subject, is also completely unable to analyse data or statistics. (To be fair, this applies to most of the media, which is largely innumerate).
As for this particular issue, it becomes more obvious with each passing day that millions of people contracted this virus without displaying any symptoms. My understanding is that when extrapolated, the numbers that tested positive in Iceland suggest that 50% of their population contracted it.
The whole thing is a bigger scam that post-modernism and climate change – or at least the response to climate change – combined.
I’d like to think you are right, but really I don’t think you are. According to the report cited below, “Although fewer than 1% of the tests came back positive for the virus, the company’s founder Dr. Kári Stefánsson told CNN that around 50% of those who tested positive said they were asymptomatic.” They have not done antibody tests, so do not know how many people may have had the virus already without being aware. But you’d need to be an extreme optimist to think that half the population may have already had it, given that there are 1,086 confirmed infections in Iceland and 927 people currently in isolation, while more than 5,000 have left quarantine, out of a population of c364,000. On a rough estimate, doubling the number of confirmed/suspected cases to account for those who had no symptoms, it suggests to me that about 14,000 people there have the virus or have had it, so under 5% of the population.
https://edition.cnn.com/202…
Tom, so many (including me in January) think they already had Covid it’s a bit surprising there isn’t a widespread poll to find out unless i haven’t seen it. MORI did a poll but it’s sample was quite small – about time the ball got rolling?
It is clear from the German research that this Virus is not as dangerous as first believed. They even believe that it is becoming less threatening with time. The West needs to open up its economy and it should be upto the vulnerable including myself to self isolate. The loss of income and aspirations of the young is not a reasonable policy.