Murphy's Law: Covid Capers
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February 7, 2022: The covid19 pandemic has done more than kill a lot of people, it has revealed the inability, or unwillingness to obtain accurate data on how many people were infected and how many died. The first problem was that many nations ignored solid evidence of how covid19 spread and which people were most vulnerable to a fatal case of covid19.
The hard evidence came in early 2020 when cruise ships and some large warships were infected. The first of these was the cruise ship Diamond Princess, which had nearly a thousand passengers and crew on board, and all were exposed to covid19 before March 2020 because there were enough infected but asymptomatic (not ill or showing other symptoms) passengers to begin with and the ship was quarantined long enough (two weeks) under conditions that allowed everyone on board to be exposed. Nearly all were tested and 19.6 percent tested positive but 47 percent of the infected showed no symptoms. Some of these did later exhibit symptoms and 14 died. The fatalities were older passengers with underlying conditions. Thousands of people caught on cruise ships and large warships that went to sea with a few people on board who were already infected with covid19 but tested before leaving the ship. That data was studied and studied and the pattern first seen on the Diamond Princess remained consistent. While this was great news to the medical community, especially epidemiologists (medical statisticians) it was not recognized as such by the mass media and many politicians refused to act on the evidence.
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