Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Biological research is rarely definitive, and experimental evidence for a particular model can often be considered more or less convincing at best. It is the very nature of science that most models are merely "works in progress" which only remain valid until they are supplanted by a refined model or are proven wrong and discarded.

Scientists are human and like politicians like to be highly regarded and right. Those who shout loudest, have most personality, access to press output, have their views aired most and unfortunately given more prevelance.

There has to be an arbiter, unfortunately our is a bumbling narcissist.

While there are lots of facts and figures and comparisons being made across countries, none whatsoever have been set with the base level of reference points so none can be taken as such. Apples and Oranges, or maybe more Cox and Pink Lady.

My completely uneducated 2d worth:-test, track and trace is the way forward. If folks getting it now, how and where did they catch it from? supermarket, hospital, park, bus.... Then we would find out what is working and what isn't. I can easily relate my wherabouts for the last 3weeks, so if I should succumb, it wouldn't be hard to correlate with others who may also have succumbed.

Enough, i've got an oil change to do.