The Experts, Media and Covid Doomsayers were wrong about Florida

[Frederick Foresight]

In a nutshell for the obtuse. Our leaders are incompetent cowards, and the media had an agenda to push which results in the collapse of a nation. Not to worry though, Old Joe will lead us out of the rubble and to the promise land of justice and equality for all. It'll be different this time, really it will

Again, please provide specifics about what they did wrong, and what you would have done better.

 

[Bugenhagen]

 

[gwb-trading]

Here it is. Uber Italy. Oh yeah.

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And people wonder why we don't believe "the experts". "Read the data and learn" they tell us. What a joke. Oh, but the models!!

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Then we hear "the model is adaptive!" Yeah, it adapts to people realizing it is horseshit.

What is this nonsense you are posting. Oh, they are just a politician's fabricated talking points.

These articles show projections from the media if Florida did not issue a stay at home order. All of these articles are from before the date when Florida issued a stay at home order.

Florida issued as stay at home order starting on April 3rd. The result of this stay at home is a much reduced COVID-19 death toll and case count than if a stay at home order had not been issued.

If a stay at home order had not been put in place in Florida then these earlier projections would likely have been met or exceeded.

 

[Bugenhagen]

I must say I'm beginning to wonder what is keeping Rush Limbaugh from catching a bullet.

I recalled hearing of a book I assumed was an actual attempt but.. No just an imaginary story for stupid old farts.

Www.amazon.com/dp/0976851504/ref=cm_sw_r_apa_i_3FwSEbPEMB024

 

[Tsing Tao]

What is this nonsense you are posting. Oh, they are just a politician's fabricated talking points.

These articles show projections from the media if Florida did not issue a stay at home order. All of these articles are from before the date when Florida issued a stay at home order.

Florida issued as stay at home order starting on April 3rd. The result of this stay at home is a much reduced COVID-19 death toll and case count than if a stay at home order had not been issued.

If a stay at home order had not been put in place in Florida then these earlier projections would likely have been met or exceeded.

Complete and total horseshit. Bold font horseshit, but horseshit nonetheless.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

In a nutshell for the obtuse. Our leaders are incompetent cowards, and the media had an agenda to push which results in the collapse of a nation. Not to worry though, Old Joe will lead us out of the rubble and to the promise land of justice and equality for all. It'll be different this time, really it will

I should point out that I thought you started this thread. Tsing Toad has me on ignore such that I cannot see his posts. So yours is the first I saw in this thread, which is why I didn't know what, specifically, you were talking about. Now that I do, please take heed: Tsing is an idiot, while gwb-trading is on point.

 

[gwb-trading]

Complete and total horseshit. Bold font horseshit, but horseshit nonetheless.

Is Florida at three months of Social Distancing yet? No. They just completed one month. Let's give it two more months with a "re-opening" occurring and see the actual results.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

I must say I'm beginning to wonder what is keeping Rush Limbaugh from catching a bullet.

I recalled hearing of a book I assumed was an actual attempt but.. No just an imaginary story for stupid old farts.

Www.amazon.com/dp/0976851504/ref=cm_sw_r_apa_i_3FwSEbPEMB024

Rush is not long for this world.

Some good Rush reading, though, is:


Not exactly a new book, and yet remarkably relevant.

 

[Bugenhagen]

The breathless calling of a final result at the very start of something by the rights these days..

It's not just how moronic it is, but how so many of them have just taken to this as a fun dirty propoganda trick is surprising.

 

[smallfil]

Because health officials and scientists don't care if they are wrong with their forecasts. They don't want to be right. Because if they're right, the end of the world comes with the disease and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, die. So they will always push forecasts and models to show catastrophe. People who are elected or hired to make decisions for the benefit of all people need to understand this and see both sides of the story and know that if they make errors, real people suffer and the economy is destroyed.

It is understanding that a narrative is being pushed. It is OK to push a narrative if the people making the decisions understand that it is a narrative and not necessarily the truth. The problem is that our leadership is severely lacking and goes with the media pressure that is pushing a different narrative - one that is politically aligned with success for their party.

So you've got scientists genuinely concerned about a disease but not caring about anything other than stemming the tide of the disease who exaggerate its danger to do what they can to stem the tide. Then you have the media latching on to this and saying "lets destroy the economy because that will be bad for Trump.". Then you have all sorts of Modern Monetary Theory seizing upon the opportunity to get the Fed to bail everyone out and established policy that would otherwise be considered lunacy, but now is considered "necessary". All of these people pushing their own narratives.

A real leader would be able to have them all at the table and would be strong enough to say "sorry, I understand the risks you are presenting but you aren't seeing the big picture here." and push back. But we don't have real leaders anymore. So we act like a herd of gazelle spooked by the sight of a leopard in the weeds. That's all we are.

More likely, this is the reason. Those so called experts need to be relevant or they would be out of jobs. After all, if you are a useless slug, chances are good they will fire your ass. Why are they paying you for? So, you paint an extreme worst case scenario. If it does not happen and chances are good that it won't you can always backtrack and say, see, we took steps to prevent it and now claim credit for being one smart cookie. Remember the figures are estimates which can be manipulated to say what you want.