[neurocline]

I’m sure it wasn’t the author’s intention, but the article has a lot of the patterns and phrasing I see in denialist literature (global warming, for example).

I agree with the author that we need more data. But he nerfed the urgency of his plea by using wording that downplays the problem, and seems to only be talking about the situation in the U.S. and U.K. No mention of the data points collected at great cost by China and Italy, not to mention Iran (which seems to be digging mass graves).

I’m confused. What does the author expect from publishing this piece?

[bsaul]

about your last point : it mentions doing random sampling periodically to get a better assessment of the spread, in order to be able to cut lockdowns when the epidemic is already touching 99% of the population ( and not wait weeks until we see the numbers drop in hospitals).

also, that we take south korea as an example for future policies and not china.

[oldgradstudent]

> I’m confused. What does the author expect from publishing this piece?

The gathering of reliable data by random testing of the general population.

I thought he made it quite clear.