Posted on 03/25/2020 4:09:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
How a handful of Democratic activists created alarming, but bogus data sets to scare local and state officials into making rash, economy-killing mandates.
As U.S. state and local officials halt the economy and quarantine their communities over the Wuhan virus crisis, one would hope our leaders were making such major decisions based on well-sourced data and statistical analysis. That is not the case.
A scan of statements made by media, state governors, local leaders, county judges, and more show many relying on the same source, an online mapping tool called COVID Act Now. The website says it is “built to enable political leaders to quickly make decisions in their Coronavirus response informed by best available data and modeling.”
An interactive map provides users a catastrophic forecast for each state, should they wait to implement COVID Act Now’s suggested strict measures to “flatten the curve.” But a closer look at how many of COVID Act Now’s predictions have already fallen short, and how they became a ubiquitous resource across the country overnight, suggests something more sinister.
When Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins announced a shelter-in-place order on Dallas County Sunday, he displayed COVID Act Now graphs with predictive outcomes after three months if certain drastic measures are taken. The NBC Dallas affiliate also embedded the COVID Act Now models in their story on the mandate.
The headline of an NBC Oregon affiliate featured COVID Act Now data, and a headline blaring, “Coronavirus model sees Oregon hospitals overwhelmed by mid-April.” Both The Oregonian and The East Oregonian also published stories featuring the widely shared data predicting a “point of no return.”
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“The phenomena is asymptotic extrapolation
Aggregating isolated numbers and creating a general condition creates a false picture”
In other words, garbage in, garbage out?
I only have 3 (2 1/2 really since 1 of those is valved) N95 masks left over from years ago. Haven’t used them yet, but having so few i want to be careful not to damage them. Heating them in the oven still sounds like the way to go.
Dr. John Campbell has morphed into a right fear merchant too. Why they aren’t flooding the space with HCQ and then letting the results come in is telling.
This is an OP.
330 million masks (which could be per day) puts a big strain on the medical supply lines that are already strained. The government would have to procure and supply the masks as well, because I know such items are hard to get in my area right now.
Regarding your tag line, I once had a 76 Grand Le Mans. Mine had the inboard-outboard motor! I often called it my “land yacht”.
Down the road, if we can think that far, no business owner or concern wants to be sued for ignoring or overlooking their duty to employees or the public in general.
They're stuck in that lawyers trap, so they can't afford to be casual about reports of a ‘pandemic.
Never underestimate the absolute ignorance of the American Sheeple.
Dangerous charlatan.
And both have been correct for quite some time now.
Oh but face masks are only effective for medical workers. You don’t know how to fit them properly or something. They only help to prevent the spread of the virus from infected people.
Do the people saying these things actually believe them, are they that stupid or do they think we are all stupid enough to believe them?
I’ve heard enough lies, half-truths and misleading statements made to last a life time during this mess.
That guy presenting the model is chinese?
Instant credibility right?
If Obama was still President ( God forbid ) NOTHING WOULD HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN.
I won’t pile on the correction.
Is that expressed as a % of the entire population?
There hasn’t been a pandemic like this in a century. Everything is unprecedented. So much so the word becomes meaningless. “Novel” covers it. The sun coming up this morning was unprecedented.
Houston and Dallas are on Stay at Home orders, until April 3rd.
Gov Abbott won’t issue state wide, since MOST counties have no cases.....at this time.
The hoax is the level of criticality.
Why believe models that show hundreds of thousands of deaths HERE, but not even close to what actually happened in China?
Great question! Do you have better data?
If so, will you please share?
The CFR is NOT 5.7%!
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