I think it is brilliant that non-medical folks are interested enough to read up on the subject and to post their thoughts, as I am sure you would agree, Gandalf. As non-meteorologist I am always grateful to the experts here for the tolerant leeway they give me.
There is nothing wrong with asking "what if" or in making a counter case to test an idea on others. However, it remains a truism that the more you get to know the more you realise how much you do not yet know and may never know. I regard myself as a beginner - even though I have been a boffin for 60+ years. A friend in his 80s said to me - I wish I believed in reincarnation - I need 3 lifetimes to learn about everything I want to know. Humility is a useful tool for trolls and conspiracy theorists to cultivate.
When people are posting "derivative facts" here I'd encourage them to try to name their sources - and if something is speculative, why not just say so? It's ok to speculate and say "what if?"
Prediction is a key scientific tool - so can anyone apply their Met skills to looking at the epidemiological data available, doing a some "model-think" - and making a prediction on number of cases, rate of spread, or mortality? It would be great if a weather expert could predict disease behaviour more accurately than the epidemiologists.
Roger
Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons