Where's the control group to verify social distancing works? Shouldn't we have set aside a segment of society and said just walk around coughing on each other and die at a higher rate so science can quantify the effectiveness of social distancing.
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The cruise ships were those controls and look how they turned out!
Yeah with it being so highly contagious, only 17% on the Diamond Princess got it. You'd expect the population in a cruise ship to be older than the general populace, so you should expect it to run a bit less in the general public and for the death rate to be lower. Plus we now have effective treatment which would further lower the death rate. I think we can end the lockdowns and get our economy going again and be fine on the death toll now.
No no no no, we don't have a treatment until we have a clinical trial which is exactly the same as the information we already have, except this time we leave 2/3rds of the participants to chance and and record on a notebook as they die at the same rate as everyone else without treatment.... not to mention all the people dying waiting on the results of the clinical trial.
Anecdotal, needs to be a clinical trial
Same with ventilators. Or anything else the doctors are using to treat this new virus.
It's brand fucking new, of course there haven't been any clinical trials on any of these treatments including ventilators (with their 83% mortality rate)
Exactly, we give people ventilators not knowing how effective it is, why not hydroxychloroquine?