Quote Originally Posted by brummievet View Post
I can’t quite believe ‘studies’ are still coming out suggesting we’re going to have untold number of cases and deaths in a few weeks if nothing more is done. Haven’t the mathematicians learnt that they have overestimated on this disease all the way through, leading to government panic? They should stop these modelling studies based on the fact they’ve haven’t modelled anything correctly yet!
Ye gods! But then we'd have to confront the implications of our own mortality and fragility. Data, data, data- that's what's going to get us through this. Using the wonders of the clockwork universe we shall predict and compute our way out of this pandemic and, in our hour of glory, we shall marvel at the imperiousness of classical mechanics. Any frivolous ideas like stress in the mind weakening the body's immune responses are snake oil, there is no point in keeping calm and carrying on.