"The correlation between the prevalance of infectious disease in a locale and the degree to which authoritarian beliefs were held in that locale is" quite high. (.7) Interesting segment by Jordan Peterson.
Reminds me of the authoritarian Democrat Governors locking down their States and making draconian edicts on where people should go and what they should wear, etc.
"Draconian edicts" have helped get a death rate of ~6% down to ~2%.
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
Death rate will tumble down as mass testing increases...
... and
social distancing, quarantines, lock downs, better therapies and vaccines.
That stuff doesn't work. That has been going on in large measure since last March/April.
It doesn't work? What do you have for evidence? I say without it we'd be a lot closer to 6% than 2%.
Because we have been doing the bold for a long time and CV is still around. Indiana University did a study on all 70,000 students statewide. In class students had a positive test rate of 2%, and remote students had a positive test rate of 8%.
Safety of in-person courses at Indiana University supported by new analysis
Data shows no evidence of increased COVID-19 risk with classes taught in person
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nov. 20, 2020
The study reviewed data from more than 70,000 undergraduate students at all IU campuses and compared the number of positive tests with the number of in-person credit hours taken by the students.
"What we found is that, actually, the more in-person credit hours a student had, the less likely they were to test positive for COVID-19," said Dr. Lana Dbeibo, assistant professor of clinical medicine and medical director of infection prevention at the IU School of Medicine, and a key member of the
IU Medical Response Team
"The idea here is that if IU classrooms were risky for COVID-19 transmission, we'd expect to see higher numbers of cases among students who spend more time in classrooms," Rosenberg said. "It would be what we call a 'dose-response' relationship. In fact, we saw the opposite trend."
Dbeibo said that for each in-person credit hour taken above zero, students were increasingly less likely to test positive for COVID-19 in the fall semester. For students taking one to three in-person credit hours, the proportion of the population who tested positive for COVID-19 over the semester was 8 percent.
The lowest proportion of students testing positive for COVID-19 were those taking 13 to 15 in-person credit hours; only 2 percent of students in this group tested positive.
Researchers found that COVID-19 infection risk was not higher among students attending more in-person courses.
news.iu.edu
