Schrodinger's Virus

[Roland99]

Link to tweet

"I didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction," Dr. Conley says when asked why he was reluctant to answer specific questions about the president's health yesterday.

Apparently, just talking about the illness changes the course of the virus.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Nothing he says will steer the illness at all.

The same way praying for someone to get better doesn't matter a jot. You want to count on verified science, not magical thinking.

[Goonch]

2. Make Schrodinger's Virus?

Forget Schrodinger’s Cat. Could We Make Schrodinger’s Virus?
Researchers say they've figured out a way to conduct an experiment putting a single virus in a superposition.Schrödinger's Cat may be the most famous thought experiment of all time, but due to its quantum trickiness it must remain in the realm of the hypothetical for the time being. However, researchers suggest they might just be able to pull off a similar, smaller-scale experiment they call Schrödinger's virus. The physicist Erwin Schrödinger came up the the feline thought experiment in the 1930s, presenting it as a caution against applying quantum rules to the real, 'classical' world.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/forget-schrodingers-cat-could-we-make-schrodingers-virus

[LizBeth]

3. So the way I am hearing this, is Trump has other health issues and they are being careful with

language not to give away what other issues of health he has been hiding from the American people. Guess, only.

[Walleye]

4. He shouldn't have gotten tested.No testing no virus,everybody knows that

[Earthshine2]

5. I think this is what Mary Trump describes as "toxic positivity."

Clearly, these Drs are saying only what Trump told them to say.

It's like thinking that testing makes cases, instead of just measuring them.