Re: the statistical wash -- yes, eventually. But for those of us who tend to over-react to everything and demand immediate access to knowledge that will only come a year or years later, it might help to think of COVID-19 as merely a complicating factor and retain the focus on your *current* diseases. And age isn't a disease. But diabetes is, COPD is, etc. If you have any of those, *they* are what you should focus on.
Re: designing SARS-Cov-2 -- These arguments sound a lot like "intelligent design" arguments, to me. You see a pocket watch laying on the ground next to a wild flower and intuitively feel like there must be a God. Sure, is it *logically* possible that a God designed the wild flower? Yes. But is that the most useful explanation? No. The worst conspiracy theory I've seen is this TL;DR, which uses TL;DR as a *weapon* to blind the audience with "science": https://project-evidence.github.io/ https://github.com/Project-Evidence/project-evidence.github.io I'd be curious if anyone in this forum prioritizes that as something to slog through. 8^) It's pretty funny that, when their name "Project E.P.S.T.E.I.N." was too strong of a hint to demonstrate they were bullshitters, they changed their name to seem less conspiratorial. On 4/20/20 11:03 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > With HIV there are people that can control the virus and have immunity for > practical purposes. [1] Whether or not there are co-morbidities, if one has > a strong signal like B*5701 for HIV, it should come out in the statistical > wash. Not everyone with a particular HLA will have the same co-morbidity. > Anyway, back to the whackadoodle topic: If that is the case, and one had a > detailed knowledge of the genetics (e.g. ethnicity) of a target population, > one could design a virus to hurt some more than others. But if one is a > fascist, it is very easy as you point out: You make everyone sick and the > people with health care or he means to stay isolated will tend to survive. > I'm not saying that is the case here, I'm just saying maybe it isn't > actually impossible. -- ☣ uǝlƃ .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... .... . ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
