Literally just a flu virus that was engineered in a lab to be more virulent and transmissible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5197528&forum_id=2#45215144)

Flu has an r0 barely over 1. That's why it disappears at the end of every "flu season" - because any change in its environment whatsoever is enough to push the r0 under 1, at which point it dies out

You guys are just so aggressively dumb. For what it's worth, I initially had the exact same reaction as you ("Isn't it weird that the flu totally disappeared during covid?") Then one of my friends pointed the above out to me (it's gone because of the anti-covid measures that we're taking) and I was like oh...yeah, that's right

The difference between actually smart people and people who are not smart but think they are is that smart people are able to immediately recognize when they're wrong and adjust their priors instantly with no trouble

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5197528&forum_id=2#45215260)

You dumb Wikipedia faggot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5197528&forum_id=2#45215280)

But we don't do this. It doesn't seem reasonable or worth it overall from a cost-benefit analysis

Was the response to covid worth it? At what threshold of illness or death *would* it actually be worth it to pursue policies like China did for covid? A serious society with serious, intelligent people in power would be making these decisions explicitly and would have them completely ready before any crisis ever occured

But we are not a serious society that is run by intelligent individuals who are capable of difficult, complex value judgments like this, just like you are not a serious, intelligent individual who is even capable of grasping a 110 IQ-level abstraction

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5197528&forum_id=2#45215333)