Covid-19 - Suspend Chess Immediately
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Well that's good news then. Perhaps we won't all die after all.
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I think the premise is that they will develop a vaccine for it. May take a while, though, as others have said.David Williams wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:27 amThe thing I find hard to visualise here is the end game. Under what circumstances do things start up again? The virus is surely never going to disappear completely. If you've never had it you're always going to be vulnerable to it, and there will always be people out there you can catch it off. There's definitely a part of me that thinks I'd rather get it now when I'm fit and healthy, rather than have it hanging over me as my health declines.
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The problem with a vaccine isn't so much going to be producing candidates.
You're going to be giving the thing to hundreds of millions of people. So you have to test it, and that means really testing it, or you could easily enough end up doing more harm than good.
You're going to be giving the thing to hundreds of millions of people. So you have to test it, and that means really testing it, or you could easily enough end up doing more harm than good.
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Is that actually going to happen, or are you just going to bother the ECF until it does?David Robertson wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:33 pmAn ECF Advisory on leagues etc will be issued too, recommending suspension.
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BothChris Goodall wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 2:30 pmIs that actually going to happen, or are you just going to bother the ECF until it does?
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And it's hard enough to get people to use vaccines that are proven.MartinCarpenter wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 2:08 pmThe problem with a vaccine isn't so much going to be producing candidates.
You're going to be giving the thing to hundreds of millions of people. So you have to test it, and that means really testing it, or you could easily enough end up doing more harm than good.
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David Robertson wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 2:35 pmBothChris Goodall wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 2:30 pmIs that actually going to happen, or are you just going to bother the ECF until it does?
I haven't bothered Mike myself, nor other Board members, but I also gather (from other sources) that the 4NCL Board is about to accept the inevitable. Perhaps the last couple of days have been spent speaking with the hotel and third party booking agent before finally deciding/announcing anything, that would be perfectly understandable.
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I see Well, that prediction can't go any worse than your "death of league chess" one.David Robertson wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 2:35 pmBothChris Goodall wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 2:30 pmIs that actually going to happen, or are you just going to bother the ECF until it does?
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Boris Johnson disagrees.
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I am not sure what else we expected from a politician who, generally in life, is pro-risk ...
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Dorset now down to 55 and Birmingham up to 75.Ian Thompson wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 10:47 amThere's also the Birmingham Rapidplay tomorrow. Its website is currently showing a total of 67 entrants.Leonard Barden wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 10:35 amTomorrow's Dorset Rapidplay had an entry limit of 75 which was oversubscribed. This morning it is still showing 61 players
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Maybe Johnson and Cummings should recklessly go out and catch it, then we might be rid of them.Jonathan Rogers wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 3:28 pmI am not sure what else we expected from a politician who, generally in life, is pro-risk ...
Same goes for that Prof Vallance or whatever his name is who has fed them this dangerous "herd immunity" theory that the WHO rightly condemns.
If only 60 per cent of the nation's children had measles vaccine that would certainly not be considered sufficient for herd immunity.
Surely something like 90 per cent is needed, and as the WHO are saying, nobody really knows how the virus affects the immune system.
A vaccine in time for the winter of 2021/22 if we are still around then looks more plausible.
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The idea the virus can somehow be "targeted" so that only young people get it is pretty fantastical anyway.
(unless we plan to forcibly relocate and quarantine all our elderly)
(unless we plan to forcibly relocate and quarantine all our elderly)
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Unfair. Read on....Tim Harding wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 3:49 pmSame goes for that Prof Vallance or whatever his name is who has fed them this dangerous "herd immunity" theory that the WHO rightly condemns
Yes, for measles. No, for Covid-19.Tim Harding wrote:If only 60 per cent of the nation's children had measles vaccine that would certainly not be considered sufficient for herd immunity. Surely something like 90 per cent is needed
The difference in 'herd immunity' % lies in the differences in rate (R) of transmission of infection. Where R = 0, there is no transmission; where R = 0.99999, the infection will swiftly die out. But where R = 1.00001, the infection will expand exponentially in due course. So R = 1 is the baseline for control.
Covid-19 has R = 2.5. Measles has R = 10+ (ie. measles is far more infectious than Covid-19). Now calculate the % for 'herd immunity': for Covid-19, it is 1.5/2.5 = 60%; for measles: 9/10 = 90%
Of course, 'herd immunity' looks good on paper. It is good scientifically. BUT you & I, Tim, being of similar age, looked at 60% of 65 million = 40 million. We factor in a death rate, say 2%, say 3.4%, say 5.6% - and we see a huge mountain of corpses (800,000 - 2,500,000) disproportionately assembled from our age group. With Government apparently shrugging its shoulders and, ahem, washing its hands of the matter.
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Missing the forest for the trees, David. "Herd immunity" is the means, not the end. The end, is people not dying of the disease. That somewhere between 0% and 100%, there must lie some % at which the effective R0 is exactly 1, is fascinating, but if your way of getting to that % is to wait for them to catch the disease and survive it, then you've defeated that end before you've started. To conflate that policy with the "herd immunity" granted by vaccinations is barbaric. It does not look good on paper or anywhere else. You might as well "eradicate" polio by just giving everyone polio at the same time and getting it over with.David Robertson wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:46 pmThe difference in 'herd immunity' % lies in the differences in rate (R) of transmission of infection. Where R = 0, there is no transmission; where R = 0.99999, the infection will swiftly die out. But where R = 1.00001, the infection will expand exponentially in due course. So R = 1 is the baseline for control.
Covid-19 has R = 2.5. Measles has R = 10+ (ie. measles is far more infectious than Covid-19). Now calculate the % for 'herd immunity': for Covid-19, it is 1.5/2.5 = 60%; for measles: 9/10 = 90%
Of course, 'herd immunity' looks good on paper. It is good scientifically. BUT you & I, Tim, being of similar age, looked at 60% of 65 million = 40 million. We factor in a death rate, say 2%, say 3.4%, say 5.6% - and we see a huge mountain of corpses (800,000 - 2,500,000) disproportionately assembled from our age group. With Government apparently shrugging its shoulders and, ahem, washing its hands of the matter.
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