Noticing something here:
Yesterday also brought news that some patients in Wuhan who had recovered from the disease and then tested negative later tested positive. Had they been re-infected by a different strain of COVID-19 or is China playing games with the numbers?
Or... just spitballin' here, you understand... maybe the tests aren't very accurate? Those test kits exported from China to Czechia, Spain, and Ukraine sure turned out to be duds.
Speaking of which: those exported test kits were apparently advertised as "80% accurate." WTF???? An 80% accurate test is crap. Besides which: is that 20% false negatives (1 in 5 infected subjects will test as OK), 20% false positives (a completely uninfected population will test positive at the same rate as the inmates of the Damnèd Pestilence), or some combination?
And the actual accuracy is reportedly 30%, which... isn't that worse than flipping a coin? What does 30% accuracy even mean?
In pictures from overseas, we've all seen the images of disinfection squads in full Andromeda Strain gear (as worn by professional car-painters everywhere) cruising along on their Segways dispensing some sort of mist from fogzookas, right?
Two questions relating to this one:
What kind of fog juice are they using in those?
Why are they "disinfecting" the flippin' ground?
Public health theater, oh yes.
Afterthought: About that bat soup... isn't that normally cooked? Doesn't cooking destroy the virus? I mean, we're talking a Corollavirus here, not a Prius. A little boiling should defang it pretty good, no?
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