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That is good swaddling right there. Well, come on everybody. It is time for your evening. Climb down from your perch of worry and start to feel good about the day and feel a little more optimistic and get ready to relax into an awesome night’s sleep. It is gonna be good. We have some controversial things we will talk about, some interesting things that will stimulate your mind. But when it is al…
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So I did a little poll on Twitter because I can, and I asked people how many people think that that weird sickness they had in January — because so many of us report something like that — how many of us think we actually had coronavirus already. Whiteboard is coming, do not worry. And how many people do you think said that they think they actually had the coronavirus already? And hundreds and hundreds of people answered.
I am also one of the people who had a weird whatever it was wrong with me in January. It was not like anything I have experienced before. Could not walk upstairs, short of breath on everything, thought I was gonna die. But I did not have a cough, so you know, maybe it was not that.
So it turns out about 48 percent of the people answering the unscientific poll think they already had the coronavirus. Now what does that do to your calculation about risk and your calculation about going back to work? What does it mean if let us say there is something like 48 percent of the entire country that thinks that? Because I do not think there is any reason that the people who follow me on Twitter are more likely to think they had the coronavirus. It is not a scientific poll, but if I had to guess, I guess that half of the country everywhere you ask would say, you know, I did have some strange illness in January.
Now why this is important is in order for the government to make a decision about when to go back to work and how, the public has to be sup
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portive. If you are calculating the odds of catastrophic hospitalizations or even your own odds or your odds as somebody in your family would get it from you, those sorts of things, it really, really is gonna be influenced by whether you think you already have the antibodies, right? How could it not be? And so I worry that that is exactly the sort of thing which could be like a gigantic influence…
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