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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Add to that, no money for medical care and medical research.
You got that right.
Been posting questioning shutdown after state governors started jumping in with this
http://wwww.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3826755/posts#6
I understand the graphs. The dates are laughable. No one is going to stay cooped up past Mid-April.
We need to take prudent precautions and get back to work by Easter.
Products of the modern educational indoctrinational school&university system?
or just a bunch of over-qualified policy wonks fearing for their careers and not putting their communities first?
Heil Zhang Fei!
Oh bullsh*t!!! The virus has been circulating where we live in Eastern King County for at least the last 3 months. It was brought back here by the half million Chinese living here who frequently visit home and bring back whatever is making the rounds there. Fortunately this one does not cause any symptoms in half the population, another 30% have symptoms mild enough that they are still running around spreading it. Kids and young adults have no idea they are “sick”.
My wife and I have both worked and volunteered at the Life Care Center in Kirkland where this virus first hit a vulnerable group of people. The question here is not if you are going to get it, but whether you already had it or not. The tests that they give now give no indication whether you had it and already got over it. If it were not for advanced testing techniques this would not have been recognized as anything other than a normal flu season. This is absolute and total madness!
When no real crisis materializes we will be left with the massive cost of this nonsense. Politicians will be taking credit for "saving" us when their actions will have had negligible if any effect on the progression of the virus.
Yes, it is nice that the two weeks is here and we are proven correct about the over-hype. Unfortunately, all they say now is...”wait until two more weeks”. You can’t win.
Quarantine kills the Constitution.
I am hoping the “kick outs” start going toward the panic pushers advocating destruction of our liberties and cheering for an authoritarian police state.
The fire department I was a member of for 25 years is overwhelmed not with sick people. Young people with no symptoms are demanding a 911 response because they think they might have been exposed and are demanding that they be evaluated and tested.
Yes, those silly freedom loving people! Lock them away, or better yet, shoot them. You panic pushers sure love your police state. Disgusting.
Hydrochlorine cures the virus.
No need to quarantine, just get the right drug to people.
Need to go over FDA and entrenched Doctor IDIOTS somehow
Two weeks ago, Ohio supposedly had 100,000+ cases. Either 100,000 survived coronavirus without treatment AND without significant symptoms, or Dr Acton and the Idiot Gov Devine are in a competition to see who is the most stupid!
Good for you.
Better than 95 needed.
And then there’s Sweden.
We have a friend in the country of Colombia. The friend tells us:
By presidential order, every citizen 70 years old and older can not leave their home until May 31. Bogota started a lock down last week. The Government started a country wide lock down until April 13. If you leave your home with no reason you can get from 4 to 8 years in prison.
Here is a video: Link
Check your decimal place...
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