Peter Lederman in Second Bout With COVID-19

@isochronism 

IF he actually made that statement, statistically an outbreak was a probable prediction given low international travel barriers, sporadic consistency of health systems from country to country and the nature of infectious disease. Additionally, it would have been a pretty safe bet then because one typically expects an administration to last 8 years.

Seriously? You can't really be implying there was a conspiracy to unleash this intentionally? Imagine how much one could accomplish dedicating one's energy into productive pursuits. I really do feel terrible that there are quite intelligent people out there spending their precious time zeroing in on something that doesn't exist.

On election night he was real popular in Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee and Atlanta and that's why he's President and his opponent the loser. Biden won by 7 million votes. That's a fact, Jack!

Uh, sorry, but no.

But hey, thanks for playing........

@ozzy62 

Into conspiracy theories, are we???

@mr_m not at all. But if you believe Joe Biden received 81 million votes, I dare say you are........

I for one would not object if the moderator would delete this thread, now that we are getting into conspiracy theories unrelated to COVID. Not surprisingly, the same guys are on the other side of my fence.

Dover, You live on an island with a huge land mass in comparison to its population, and it is accessible via a very limited number of locations.  Controlling an epidemic infectious disease in that setting is rather simple compared to the issues faced by most other larger countries. One possible reason for the screening system used by your government at the outset of the pandemic, if indeed your depiction is correct, would be that the previous Coronavirus outbreak, caused by the SARS virus at the turn of this century, was characterized by the fact that infected persons were not contagious UNTIL they first developed symptoms.  It was not such a bad notion to screen for symptoms in those days when most medical authorities were thinking that SARS-CoV2 would behave much like SARS.  Although it was far more deadly than SARS-CoV2, the SARS outbreak was largely overcome by quarantining those who became ill, immediately at the onset of symptoms.  This is one reason why a vaccine for SARS was never developed, although several were in the pipeline.  As it turned out, COVID is not like SARS; infected persons are contagious to others long before they become symptomatic. Quarantine is not nearly as effective.