Re: Readercon code of conduct

On 2024-06-04, Mike Van Pelt <usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:

In article <lbr238Fa73cU1@mid.individual.net>,
Bernard Peek  <bap@shrdlu.com> wrote:

The measures were probably excessive for a disease with a
mortality of 0.5% but would have been woefully inadequate if
it had been 2.5% instead. We took months to impose pretty
feeble restrictions. I would like to see response-times
measured in hours.

>
One of the big problems preventing early measures from being
taken was believing a word that came from the ChiCom regime.
The WHO basically parroted whatever they said about no
human-to-human transmission, etc., until it became impossible
to ignore.  The rest of the world needs to recognize that
totalitarian despots lie.
>

True.  Not that it necessarily distinguishes them from any other politician.
But it was what governments wanted to hear.  I don't remember it being
mentioned on the medical grapevine at any point.

It only accounts for the failures in the first few weeks or so, before
the first case in the USA.


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Bernard Peek
bap@shrdlu.com
Wigan