Frequently-Asked Questions

• What is
  Data Not Distress?
• What is
  Deaths Per Case and why is measuring deadliness important?
• So many people say Covid-19 is just one virus - what do you mean by the deadliness changing?
• How do you calculate the Percent Change
  in Deadliness?
• This is a "novel" coronavirus - doesn't that mean we've never seen anything like this before?
• Scientists say Social Distancing is safe and effective, doesn't that mean it has to be true?
• Does Bangladesh prove that Virus-Avoidance Strategies are a failure?
• Why is viral monoculture so much more deadly than a diverse set of strains?
• How do Virus-Avoidance Strategies cause more deadly airborne disease?
• How many lives could be saved by not using Virus-Avoidance Strategies?
• Who is truly at risk for airborne disease like Covid-19?
• Isn't a vaccine the only way to end this pandemic?
• How are Virus-Avoidance Strategies a national security threat?
• Did Virus-Avoidance Strategies make the 1918 Spanish flu as deadly as it was?
• Why didn't we respond like today to more deadly pandemics in the 1950's and 1960's?
• Why has so much of the world seen nothing more than a normal cold season despite Covid-19?
• What is a Virus-Year?
• How does Flattening The Curve kill more people?
• Why did the more-deadly SARS coronavirus kill fewer people from 2002-4?
• In 1918, most deaths were due to hospital bacteria - that couldn't happen today could it?
• Does Japan prove that Covid-19 was a pandemic of hospitals, and not viruses?
• Why does "overwhelmed hospital" really mean "incompetent doctors"?
• What is drug-resistant bacteria, and wouldn't viruses do exactly the same thing?