Posted on 05/17/2020 3:31:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
The only way to learn anything from an experience is to have accurate information about it when youre through it. Its called learning from your mistakes. People do it all the time. Its how we get better as human beings. Thomas Edison reportedly said, I didnt fail. Ive just found 10,000 ways that wont work, about creating the lightbulb. Politicians, on the other hand, are incapable, or at least unwilling, of learning from the mistakes theyre making because they believe theyre benefiting from the disinformation. And were all going to suffer because of it.
How many people have died from COVID-19? You can cite the official numbers, which vary depending on your source. Theyre horrific, of course, but are they anywhere close to accurate?
Dr. Anthony Fauci testified this week that the number is probably higher, Dr. Deborah Birx, it was reported last week, thinks the number may be inflated by as much as 25 percent. Who is right? We dont know.
Fauci didnt cite much beyond his belief, which doesnt hold that much water considering hes held opposite positions on everything from the wearing of masks to whether or not coronavirus was a serious threat to Americans during the early stages of the pandemic. Birx didnt cite much either, sharing an equally bad track record of prognostication.
The truth is we have no idea.
Back in March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidelines that nearly ensured anything we could learn from this pandemic, either to help us now or help people in the future, would be absolutely worthless.
A directive entitled, New ICD code introduced for COVID-19 deaths, concluded with how to count deaths. It reads, COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death. The part in bold was done by them.
What does that mean? It means that if tests werent conducted on people who died with any of the countless, ever-evolving symptoms assigned to coronavirus, count them anyway. It doesnt matter if they have stage-4 cancer, kidney failure, pretty much anything short of a wrought iron spike sticking out of their heads -- count it.
Couple that with financial incentives in government payment rates, called reimbursements, for treating COVID-19 patients and you begin to see how inflating the number of deaths was both encouraged and incentivized.
Thats the garbage in junk numbers that dont reflect reality. You get only garbage out when you put garbage in.
Science is the favorite buzzword of the left Democrats are, theyll happily tell you, the party of science. Thursday, for some random reason that perfectly encapsulates both how corrupted the media has become and how the left simply uses the word science in the absence of knowledge or facts, Anderson Cooper interviewed high school drop-out Greta Thunberg about coronavirus. In one 1:25 clip, together they used some variation of the word science 11 times without saying anything.
But science is needed, now more than ever. Unfortunately, true science needs more than buzz. It requires data; real, accurate data, from which to draw conclusions and prove anything. Corrupt data in means garbage out.
As we navigate this pandemic, public officials are making decisions based on that flawed data. Moreover, when future generations experience a pandemic (and they will), they will look back to now for guidance and they wont find it. Worse, theyll find inaccurate data and assume its good.
That we dont have accurate, extensive data from the 1918 Spanish Flu isnt surprising, the technology to collect it across the country didnt exist then. It exists now, and were blowing it. Either for reasons of panic, incompetence, or corruption, we are not working off of or gathering truthful information that will help anyone, now or in the future, make informed decisions.
This reality hasnt stopped anyone from making declarative statements as if they have truth on their side, nor has it stopped the media from spreading, unquestioningly, those half-truths and lies. Worse, its driving everything federal, state, and local governments are imposing on people.
Some Governors are bucking this trend, asking the right questions, and going in a different direction. So far, its working out in their favor. But the garbage in, garbage out model is still in full operation almost elsewhere else, and its unlikely to change anytime soon.
The fear is, even if those governors succeed, others are so wed to the garbage model that if they ever do come around it will be too late. The damage will be done. Without insisting on correct and accurate data, unlike Edison who learned from his failures, our political leaders wont be able to apply anything from this pandemic to the future, well only learn to fail further.
President Trump, I hope youre listening, because youre the only person who can insist on, and order, any changes to this.
NO!
I PRAy that Trump is on to FRAUD FAUCI and that he i just waiting til he gets EXPOSED by some REAL REPORTERS to tell the TRUE STORY of FRAUD FAUCI!
I've read it's less than that...
Psalm 90:10 NIVOur days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
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