Thanks for your question.... I didn’t say he “runs a hospital” but he is in a state with moderate infections and my brother speaks with those in other states daily including colleagues specifically in the early hotspot of Seattle. We are in a different large city hours away. Funny thing is that you don’t have to be an ICU nurse to know what’s going on in the in ICU. My wife worked nights in the ED for years and fortunately for me she now doesn’t. Can you even imagine how big there network of people and knowledge is after 20 years each in medicine? I imagine you know a lot of people at other airlines right? And they all talk.

I feel very comfortable developing an informed decision based on the first hand information of those I know and respect. I read the actual data without the spin and editorial opinion and it agrees. Do you feel comfortable basing your opinion on the news media (pick any of them) who can’t even get the facts straight on any simple situation you have been involved in first hand? Just listen to their “aviation experts” and aviation reports in the simplest subject and all confidence is lost on their ability to factually describe most things and the responsibility is to become an informed and skeptical listener.

Not sure why I am even responding. Nothing good ever comes from a message board.


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Unfortunately most pilots don't understand what anecdotal evidence means

And with that you just showed why for profit medicine is the dumbest way to provide basic health care....

"My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw Ferris pass-out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious."

If your wife is so damn bored, come to Detroit. We have plenty of open seats on flights and full hospitals for her to be "entertained" with.

It is increasingly looking like this was
 

Over hyped.

https://twitter.com/lapublichealth/s...077487107?s=12

If the antibody testing we’ve seen at Stanford, in LA, and in Boston is typical of the nation as a whole, the actual case-fatality rate is WAY LESS than initially predicted and the spread is already far greater than we initially believed. We may have done far more damage with overzealous shutdowns than the virus would have done - or will do - with the disease.

ultimately, case-fatality rates may well resemble just a bad flu year. In the meantime, 30% of small businesses are probably gone forever.

My mom died in February at age 61 from complications related to lung cancer. She smoked hard all her life and basically took no care of her health. Even if she got COVID to pin her death on COVID would completely ludacris. She was dying anyways, and much as it pains me to say, she basically did it to herself. To give her some more time, while nice for her, myself, and family yeah that would be nice. You know what else would be nice? Having a society to bring up her grandson (my son) for the REST of his life in a world not completely distorted from what we lived in up til ,oh, about February. But I'm really greedy and have no skin the in the game.

The way the reports keep rolling in and rolling in about the interesting manner in which deaths are recorded, that the survival rates are very high while the number of infected may be even higher than forecast (resulting in yet lower death rates still)....yeah, I'd be careful about loosely dropping "idiots" on people who disagree with you. But ya know, suit yourself.

Thanks you for pointing that out....I actually mean that.

idiots? That would be idiots at Stanford school of Medicine, USC School of Medicine, New York City Health Department, and Johns Hopkins who are the ‘idiots’ promoting this. And it is consistent with what is being seen in other countries.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/20/coro...ted-cases.html

https://www.livescience.com/coronavi...-high-nyc.html


https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/...e-15208216.php

and as far as ‘idiots’ go, we know the current Coronavirus RNA assays for current infection have pi$$-poor predictive value positive AND negative. Given that the initial models were calling for 20 million dead in the US, it would appear the poorly informed alarmists were on the other side of this issue.