Posted on 11/01/2020 4:56:59 AM PST by John W
Super spreader.... I thought this thread was going to be about Kamala Harris
i.e. a guess - and a biased guess at that.
Incredibly fake news.
Done by some lefty Stanford economist with bogus methodology and zero background in epidemiology, then released without any peer review for election weekend publication by the NYTimes and posted to the top of everyone’s Twitter page.
So much for fact checking or journalistic superiority over the NYPost and their Hunter Biden story.
A lot of folks call those “SWAGs”
Scientific Wild Ass GuesseS.
We used it a lot on the shuttle program. :-)
Yet the months or protests and riots has not added one additional Covid case. Astounding.
I did a study just now and estimate I can jump over the moon.
Nonsense.
Joke post or Babylon Bee?
Take your pick.
Trump’s rallies must be really working for them to come up with this piece of garbage.
Total fake news.
Assumptions, models, estimates, guesses - nothing “rigorous” about them.
Which one of the persons behind the study did a “rigorous” analysis of the “super spreading” “protests” and riots?
Wow. Talk about junk science.
From the article:
“After the date of the rally, the growth in coronavirus infections in counties that had welcomed Trump diverged notably from the growth in counties that didn’t, the researchers found.
The gaps varied widely from rally to rally. But no reading of the statistical findings support the conclusion that hosting a rally had no effect in driving up coronavirus cases.
Two rallies in Wisconsin — one in Oshkosh on Aug. 17 and another in Mosinee on Sept. 17 — stood out in particular relief. Before each rally, the positivity rate of coronavirus tests in each county was essentially flat. But immediately after the rallies, the “positivity rates rose sharply and quickly” and continued rising for at least several weeks, the researchers reported.
But lots of factors might have explained such differences. Maybe the counties that experienced an increase in cases — that is, the ones that hosted rallies — simply had more people living in closer proximity to one another, helping the virus to spread. Residents might have had higher rates of underlying medical conditions that made them more susceptible to the virus if exposed. Perhaps public health strictures, such as mask mandates or temporary closures of bars and restaurants, were more lax.”
Sure they did. Because looters and rioters aren’t going to tell the truth about what they’ve been up to at their “peaceful protests.”
Yeah, sure they did.
Must have been the 20% that were Democrats
Estimates//
Ya,, well,,,
I estimate this urinalist is full of crap.
If one even buys the absurd infection total of 30,000, projecting 700 deaths would be a 2.3% mortality rate. Actual mortality rate from covid is a faction of a percentage.
A rigorous attempt to gauge the after-effects of 18 of the president’s reelection rallies, all held in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, suggests they have led to more than 30,000 additional cases and at least 700 additional deaths.
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Leftist propagandists enlist leftist scientists to play with numbers.
How pathetic.
I hope all of you people off yourselves the day after election day.
I heard it was 7,000,000 deaths
Now do the riots....
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