A number of organizations who have forecasted the pandemic have found their models over estimating the number of cases we should have expected. One in particular, Washington State University’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) got its figures so wrong they were singled out last week by Tucker Carlson. Here
Yesterday, on CBS News “Face the Nation,” one of IHME’s experts opined on the risk of opening the economy back up on May 1st. Here
The powers that ordered the (worldwide) coronapanic shutdown do not want the economy restarted while there is any remaining possibility of its recovering to anything close to its earlier condition.
the secret to predicting is to keep predicting. eventually you may be right and hailed as a genius.
Their models were proved to be spectacularly wrong, but we are supposed to believe them now?
Screw that, start opening things up tomorrow.
Yeah, well, I’m gonna start running with scissors. Within 4 feet of people.
Weve had enough of ihme garbage models and hysteria thank you very much. These dopes havent gotten one thing right and are in full on cya. Back to work tomorrow
In 1976, Harvey Brenner found, among other points, that when unemployment rises by one percent, 36,000 people die as a result.
Those are real lives lost too, a vital part of the discussion about returning to business as usual.
https://thehighwire.com/unemployment-the-other-health-crisis
The media loves the experts, especially when what they declare props up their favorite narrative. Their working on “Trump opening economy killed grandma” right now as a way to cover over the all the mistakes of their favorite democrat governors, mayors and members of congress.
Christopher Murray states he doesn’t think the States are equipped to deal with a rebound of cases were we to open up May 1.
Is this rebound based on the wildly overstated cases predicted in his model? If so, I think we can safely take that chance.
Who wants to live in a cave??? Mikey you try it
Why was f—king Fauci on CNN last night, saying that earlier virus mitigation efforts would have saved lives, but there was pushback? Why was he on CNN at all?? I thought Pence told all the exspurtz to stay the f—k off CNN!! Is Fauci trying to force his own firing to get the next frame-job on Trump going?
What’s up with that, VP Pence? Did you make a CNN exception for this asshole? Fauci isn’t stabbing you in the back. He’s stabbing you right in the front! Make him go sort turds by type in Guam.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5e93159fc5b6ca9a9f01e39e
Opener up.
Bringer on MF.
Not that anyone cares but it is the UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, not Washington State University, which is a relatively conservative agricultural school on the opposite side of the state.
Ya know…I feel bad for the folks that have died during this pandemic, just as bad as I felt for all the folks that died before this pandemic.
The reality is that when you choose to live packed in like sardines, you’ve all got to expect to marinate in the same sauce as advertised on the can.
I can’t count the times these smug bastards have told me just how much I’m missing by not living in a large metropolitan area.
Now those same smug bastards have closed the country down, making everyone pay for their mistakes while most of the country is unnecessarily going down the shitter.
Fuck you New York.
#1)
“I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.”
#2)
“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
Thomas Jefferson
@Billy Fuster People should care, UW is the most wretched liberal group-think echo chamber of anti-Trump cunts that I have ever seen or worked for. They need to be called out for this and a great deal of other things.