“I know. The 100,000-200,000 was a projection with mitigation, but the modelers had to guess at how effective mitigation might be. That type of model was never set in stone. They weren’t making some sort of prediction like Nostradamus. It was always meant to be revised as new data came in.”
Really? The projections were meant to scare us to death so we’d abandon our livelihoods and go along with these draconian measures. You tell me: if the projections (which you’ve just admitted were worthless) had shown the reality, would the masses have been so willing to cower in their homes?
You think I’ve admitted the models are worthless? I think they are very worthwhile and not for scaring people though they may have done that. I figure they were used to try to decide where to allocate scarce resources, to decide when and where to put mitigation measures into place, to give advice to the various states. Probably many more things, too.