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What you've described with green tee and water is science, it's just that your conclusions aren't well supported by the evidence. > One could argue that science is about falsifying hypothesis - and terby narrowing in on not just if something works, but how. To clarify, are YOU arguing that? Because if you're not arguing that, if you're just playing devil's advocate, then I'm unhappy with the way the conversation is g…
Your quote literally includes the phrase "testable explanations"? My point about tea vs water is exactly that having: "a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge" helps with controlling for other factors when setting up and evaluating experiments? Ed: hm, we may be talking past each other here: > Testing "how" is not a requirement for science Indeed, 'testing "how"' isn't really possible, only testin…
It says "and predictions". That is, both "testable explanations" and "testable predictions" are a part of science.
> Indeed, 'testing "how"' isn't really possible, only testing "if".
This argument is a dead end. If you construct your epistemology in such a fragile way that testing "how" is not possible, then take a closer look at the world you've constructed, you'll find that testing "if" is not possible either.
Any modern philosophy of science has to reconcile with modern epistemology. If you try to construct a good definition for science but use your intuition about what "knowledge" is, then you're only going to discover that you need to go back and refine your understanding of epistemology.
I claim that we can, in fact, test "how".
Testing "how" and testing "whether" are both scientific endeavors.
It might be worth taking a look on Twitter. This doctor is 'live' tweeting his experience with the disease including lung scans [1]. Based on some other first hand experiences I've read on the Twitter/News people's experience varies wildly. Some people say it's not much worse than the flu. On the otherhand I saw a tweet from one doctor who had it claim it was worse than child birth so seems like the variation in expe…
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The testing capacity simply doesn't exist. It's a huge failure, but it's not a nonsense rule, it's a result of poor planning and mistakes made weeks ago.
Yeah, but won't they at least put you in line if they intend to test? Sounds like the lack of capacity is a good excuse to lower the statistics.
https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/
I don't know what the decision matrix is, I am just saying that lack of testing capacity is a real part of it.
It might be worth taking a look on Twitter. This doctor is 'live' tweeting his experience with the disease including lung scans [1]. Based on some other first hand experiences I've read on the Twitter/News people's experience varies wildly. Some people say it's not much worse than the flu. On the otherhand I saw a tweet from one doctor who had it claim it was worse than child birth so seems like the variation in expe…
Couldn't this be because doctors in hospitals only see patients who require hospitalization? That gives them a bias.
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I would appreciate the advice about the old wives tale, even if I don't after all use it. I promise to upvote every supportive comment and downvote every mocking comment!
Here it is: https://www.amazon.com/Zijainternational-SuperMix-Moringa-Ol... We forgot about it until I was gasping for air and then my wife remembered and we had some laying around. I could breath again in about 20 minutes. My chest and lungs still hurt until today.
The price point on amazon is ridiculous though...makes me want to get in the business of packaging and selling this product in the future (not specific to covid).
Your comment about not being older than 60 to get tested made me so angry and shows how fucked the US is. Testing has nothing to do with protecting you (the current treatment for Covid-19 is the same as any other severe respiratory illness), it's about deciding who needs to be quarantined and have their contacts tracked to protect other people. While the severity of symptoms varies by age, the transmissibility does n…
> Your comment about not being older than 60 to get tested made me so angry and shows how fucked the US is I live in the (presumed) social democratic paradise of Sweden where the "government" has just decided to stop testing anyone who is not already in a hospital and belongs to a risk group, i.e. anyone under ~65 years of age without any co-morbidities [1 - Swedish]. The "state epidemiologist" Anders Tegnell has oth…
The reason why not everyone is offered testing is because healthcare is very accessible and free in Sweden (like it is in Denmark, Norway, and Germany too) meaning that you can't offer it to everyone who wants it. Because if you did, you would have to pointlessly test a million hypochondriacs with symptoms that have nothing to do with corona just for the sake of it.
For one view on how well countries handle the epidemic, look at the fatality rate. US: 49/2195 = 2.2%, Germany: 5/3062 = 0.16%, Sweden: 2/867 = 0.23%, Norway: 1/996 = 0.10%, Frane: 79/3667 = 2.2%.
I have had a fever for a week and difficulty breathing. I have asked my doctor about getting tested for Covid19 and they have declined to test me because I don't meet the critical criteria: age > 60, around large groups of people, etc. I run in circles with someone that returned from Italy and has been confirmed to have Covid19. I'm assuming I have it. The fever isn't so bad for me but there have been a few times whe…
Say the thing
Is there somebody here who could suggest a rule set for when to seek help?
Something like: seek help if SpO2
- between 85% and 90% for more than 48 hours
- between 80% and 85% for more than 24 hours
- below 80% immediately
(actually I do feel mildly ill and as if breathing is a little bit more uncomfortable than usual - but according to my pulsoxymeter SpO2 is at healthy 98% with a pulse around 60 bpm. so everything seems perfectly fine)