Birthday

 

A year ago - on March 3, 2020 - StatGroup-19 was born. It was born spontaneously, without the awareness of a future, not even near. Then, listening to people's confusion and doubts, we tried to understand and explain the epidemic. And a year has passed, quickly. It's time for birthdays, and birthdays are also moments for reflection. A year has passed in which we have studied, written, discussed, criticized, collaborated, published. An intense, tiring, tough year for us as well as for everyone. But there is also the satisfaction of having tried to give a fact reading. To explain reality complexity, foresee and understand how to manage the situation.

It's been a year, and how are we? Reading posts and some newspapers, it seems to be March 2020. But we are in 2021:

• We have vaccinated almost 1 million people over 80s.
• We have targeted closures.
• We know much, much better the virus.

What does not change is the inability to communicate correctly by both the institutions and some newspapers. The pursuit of the headline is paroxysmal, and now if you don't shout "we'll all die", you won't be published. This crying to call "Wolf, wolf", for which the cries were the same in August, and October 2020, did not help perceive fundamental nuances. We are always in the same positions. No, we will not all die. We will have to be careful for a long time to come. We now have all the tools to do this. We will get out of it. Will the economy also emerge? The social fabric? If we can seize the opportunities we have, we could grow instead of collapsing.

We will continue to read the data, make short-term predictions, and write posts every now and then.

Happy birthday to us and to those who read StatGroup-19 😉