Or maybe give them an "unknown chance" of permanent damage, that they can
redeem at some time in the future.  Did you win or lose?  Only time will
tell.

-- rec --


On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 1:26 PM Eric Charles <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Huh... so... there are a few ways to deal with that I guess.... which gets
> us back to the issue of who gets to decide "asymptomatic" (the patient or
> the doctor) - because "has permanent lesions in their lungs" sure seems
> like something a doctor would consider "a symptom"....
>
> I guess, either way, we could just add a small chance that
> "asymptomatic" people develop permanent damage.
>
>
>
> -----------
> Eric P. Charles, Ph.D.
> Department of Justice - Personnel Psychologist
> American University - Adjunct Instructor
> <[email protected]>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 12:26 PM Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Eric --
>>
>> There's this from June 23,
>> https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/23/864536258/we-still-dont-fully-understand-the-label-asymptomatic
>>
>> The findings are consistent with several studies following asymptomatic
>>> patients in China, which have found that many can
>>> <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7152865/> develop lesions
>>> in the lungs despite having no outward symptoms, says Dr. Jennifer
>>> Taylor-Cousar
>>> <https://www.nationaljewish.org/doctors-departments/providers/physicians/jennifer-l-taylor-cousar>,
>>> a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health in Denver not involved with the
>>> paper. "It probably is, at least in this disease, pretty common," she says.
>>
>>
>> There are purely asymptomatic cases which do not progress, but we're
>> still figuring out how many there are, and how many of them have lesions,
>> and what the consequences of the lesions might be.
>>
>> -- rec --
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 10:56 AM Eric Charles <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Roger,
>>> Given that the number of confirmed cases in the U.S. is still likely a
>>> small fraction of the number of actual infections... and infected
>>> youngsters are still showing infinitesimal risk several months after the
>>> outbreak started... I think "asymptomatic" directly to "recovered" seems
>>> very plausible. The real problem when discussing "asymptomatic" is that
>>> there is a huge difference between a dude who would say "no symptoms here,
>>> I'm fine" and a person a doctor would thoroughly examine and declare to
>>> have no symptoms. So "asymptomatic" should really be understood as "cases
>>> that don't bother people more than whatever normal crap they deal with" or
>>> something like that.
>>>
>>> You're certainly right though that permanent damage is a big concern and
>>> a big unknown. I think the chart estimates are probably not bad, but we
>>> won't know for a long time: For the "moderate cases", 2d4 damage but you
>>> only recover 6, is a 19% chance of permanent damage, which is unlikely to
>>> make you very disabled. For the "severe" cases, 2d6 damage and you only
>>> recover 6, is a 50% of permanent damage, and a lot of possibility that you
>>> will be much worse off afterwards. (And, of course, it depends on the
>>> constitution level you start with.)
>>>
>>> -----------
>>> Eric P. Charles, Ph.D.
>>> Department of Justice - Personnel Psychologist
>>> American University - Adjunct Instructor
>>> <[email protected]>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 1:39 PM Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Pretty horrible.
>>>>
>>>> But the real horror was
>>>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/01/coronavirus-autopsies-findings/
>>>>  which
>>>> made me wonder how asymptomatic the asymptomatic infections really are.
>>>> Like the early report of 3 scuba divers in Austria who self-isolated
>>>> through mild cases and then found out that their lungs were no longer
>>>> suitable for diving.  So there may be Recovery branches under the
>>>> Asymptomatic and Moderate Illness branches of the game, with possible never
>>>> recovered CON penalties on their tail ends.  We'll find out when people
>>>> start going back to the doctor for checkups, or having trouble shaking the
>>>> flu.
>>>>
>>>> And have we actually decided that asymptomatic is anything but a
>>>> variable length precursor to Moderate or Serious Illness?  I thought that
>>>> was still an open question.
>>>>
>>>> -- rec --
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 9:33 AM Eric Charles <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey, thought many of you might get a kick out of this (or be
>>>>> horrified... or both).
>>>>>
>>>>> [image: The Covid Game.jpg]
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that it starts with someone who is for sure infected, and the
>>>>> footnote states it is within 1.5% accuracy for people ages 20 to 89.
>>>>>
>>>>> So far as I can trace it back, I think the author is a guy named Clay
>>>>> Dreslough. He posted it with the following guide a guide to help 
>>>>> non-gamers
>>>>> (and the guide assumes people don't own a 100 sided die... which is weird
>>>>> ;- ):
>>>>>
>>>>> For non-nerds:
>>>>>
>>>>> The number before the 'd' is the number of dice you roll, the number
>>>>> after is the number of sides on the die. For example, 2d6 = roll two
>>>>> 6-sided dice and add them together, giving you a possible range of 2-12. 
>>>>> In
>>>>> the 'Asymptomatic' box, there is an additional step in the formula, where
>>>>> you subtract a number. For example, the 'Mask' roll is 2d6-8, meaning roll
>>>>> two 6-sided dice and subtract eight, giving you a range of 0-4 for the
>>>>> number of people you infect while wearing a mask (results below zero are
>>>>> treated as zero — you can't infect a negative number of people).
>>>>>
>>>>> A d100 roll refers to taking two 10-sided dice, and designating one as
>>>>> your tens unit, one as your ones unit. The example in the upper right of
>>>>> the graphic shows a 3 and a 7, which becomes 37. Rolling two 0s yields 
>>>>> 100,
>>>>> not 00.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, all the places where it asks for d100 + your age, you'll do just
>>>>> that. For me, being 49, this gives me a random number from 50 to 149. I
>>>>> then find the arrow matching my roll and follow it to the next box.
>>>>>
>>>>> Finally, CON refers to your "Constitution" stat in Dungeons & Dragons
>>>>> — a general measure of your physical health and endurance. The average
>>>>> person has a CON of 10. An olympic athlete has a CON around 18.
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that while the fatality rates are pretty accurate for current CDC
>>>>> data, there's really no data on "permanent damage" (in the same way that,
>>>>> 19+ years later, we are still arguing about the number of soldiers
>>>>> suffering from Gulf War Syndrome and the number of first responders
>>>>> sickened by 9/11). And of course the medical community doesn't define "a
>>>>> point of constitution", so that's just a guess. But I know more than one
>>>>> person that's "recovered" and are still incapacitated to some degree.
>>>>>
>>>>> -----------
>>>>> Eric P. Charles, Ph.D.
>>>>> Department of Justice - Personnel Psychologist
>>>>> American University - Adjunct Instructor
>>>>> <[email protected]>
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