re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

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But he’s in that position and you’re here posting on Tigerdroppings. I mean, he may not be infallible, but you think he got there by being lucky or they just wanted to give the job to just anyone?

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Read his work specific to novel viruses and get back to me.

I've read it.

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With that said, I’m not panicking about anything, but it’s funny to me that Slackster Tigerdroppings poster is insinuates that he knows more about what’s going on with a “world pandemic,” than a professional and is “world renowned.”

Someone might need to get over themselves.

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You don't know a damn thing about his background.

His expertise is risk analysis, specifically in financial markets. He's renowned in that area for his call surrounding the financial crisis. His entire argument on novel viruses is that you never know which one will wipe out humans, so every new one should be treated as though it's the "one" until proven otherwise.

It's completely impractical and has no real world application, but feel free to argue otherwise.

I wasnt suggesting that you did.

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So then Iran??

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You realize a lot of Iran is snowy mountains?

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Why? It's barely a common cold for high school aged kids.

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I’m guessing they were flying internationally to Europe.

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Am I the only one that feels that there’s information out there that’s being withheld to keep panic to a minimum?

For a mediocre virus that everyone claims this to be, there sure are a lot of powerful people making a lot of drastic changes.

Go on with the chlorophyll

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I've explained the rationale on here a few times - you've probably only got one shot to stop this virus from becoming endemic. The economic impact of these draconian actions are far more reasonable when measured against the backdrop of a lifetime of a new endemic virus. They make no sense against the individual current threat.

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It’s your story, tell it like you want.

But you’re still here and he’s still there.

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Educate yourself. Some of us were familiar with Taleb before 30 minutes ago.

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Why? It's barely a common cold for high school aged kids.

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Because they can bring it home and infect others who might more more susceptible. I’m not concerned about the initial viral mortality rate. I’m more concerned about it spreading to people who can get very sick and the hospitals become overwhelmed. At any point it becomes dangerous to every person who need care in the hospital if there aren’t beds or healthcare workers available to assist.

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But is it still not crazy we aren’t basically halting everything for 4,000 worldwide deaths and 40 US deaths

I mean it may all be the right thing, who knows. But on the surface it still sounds insane

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It is insane on the surface. No way to argue otherwise.

However, if you think a little deeper, it makes sense. It's not about the current impact - it's about the cumulative impact if it becomes endemic.