I'm A Coronavirus Heretic. Here's Why...

I'm officially a coronavirus heretic (although many UK experts agree with me - see link and additional commentary below).

The virus is terrible. It will kill many people and overwhelm our health systems.

But what we're doing about it is almost certainly worse.

In this episode, I explain why.

Watch:

Video length: 00:13;25

Or Listen:

Audio length: 00:13:36

This is a special episode. It was recorded as a video on Youtube, and as a podcast on Candidate Everyone (or tune your podcasting app to Candidate Everyone).

The core data is from:

• The Korean CDC 
• A UK panel on interventions
• The U.S. Census (for age distributions)
• Any stock market tracker (for market losses)
• World Bank (for global poverty levels)
• UN Food and Agriculture Organization (for global hunger levels)
• Statistica (for other death rates)
• ThinkProgress (for impact of unemployment on mortality)
• And our beloved Wikipedia (for other data)

As a note, I'm pretty strident in this video. But I know there are many unknowns. We must make decisions despite unknowns - based on the best of our knowledge. 

We can't allow fear of what the virus could be to erase the open-eyes assessment of what we can be highly confident our actions will cause.

I do, of course, welcome feedback. There are many experts on this list - including medical professionals with deep experience. I did run the ideas on this podcast/video past a highly experienced infectious diseases expert who agrees with them. The only gap in the video is there because I had to edit out my reference to him.

>> Continue Watching Part 2: Stop The Corona Insanity - The Data