Posted on 04/09/2020 11:37:33 AM PDT by NoLibZone
As daily life across America is upended by the coronavirus crisis -- with mass business closures plunging the economy into freefall -- one former New York Times reporter is sounding the alarm about what he believes are flawed models dictating the aggressive strategy.
Alex Berenson has been analyzing the data on the crisis on a daily basis for weeks and has come to the conclusion that the strategy of shutting down entire sectors of the economy is based on modeling that doesn’t line up with the realities of the virus.
THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK STATE BY STATE
"The response we have taken has caused enormous societal devastation, I don't think that's too strong a word," he told Fox News in an interview Thursday.
Berenson is a former reporter who worked for the Times from 1999 to 2010 primarily covering the pharmaceutical industry. He recently came to prominence again with a book, “Tell Your Children The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence,” which challenged prevailing narratives on marijuana.
Recently he’s been focusing on discrepancies within the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) model. That model has come under renewed scrutiny as it has revised its metrics multiple times. It once predicted more than 90,000 deaths by August but recently issued a new estimate that has the figure closer to 60,000. Government officials say it's a model that's moving with what the country is doing.
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90k v. 60k sounds pretty good for modeling no physics based systems.
90k v. 60k sounds pretty good for modeling non-physics based systems.
If we wait for the politicians to tell us it’s safe to peek out of our front doors, we’ll be in a depression that will make the last one look like a walk in the park.
How about the ReTARDs (Republicans That Are Really Democrats)?
Thanks to Sergio for the above!
“inching the towel back”
I don’t know that phrase and couldn’t find it in the article nor with a web search. What does inching the towel back mean?
“Inching the towel back...”
Not a classic phrase, so far as I know, but it brings images of massage parlors to my mind. Or, surgical draping for the less prurient.
states are cooking the books because for every coronavirus case they get 15K, for every person on a ventilator they get another 39K..the more cases, the more money they make..and they will designate every death as coronavirus, you cough, drop dead, yeah its corona
I’d guess there isn’t a Chinese massage parlor operating in America right now. Lol.
Cant wait to hear the response to this “Non Classical” phrase and cant wait to hear the correlation between this situation and massage parlors !
Oh, okay. Bear in mind no one can read your mind. Standard English communicates and that’s to your (and your reader’s) advantage. JMO.
I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, but I still don’t know anybody who has this virus and the USA is the most infected in the world?
What on earth does “inching the towel back” mean?
“to the reader’s advantage...” LOL
How about “slowly draw back the curtain?”
I’ll check with Bob Kraft.
HE’S LYING! HE’S LYING!
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE - OR AT LEAST MOST OF US ARE!
GRAB YOUR ZINC, DRIED FRUITS AND NUTS AND HEAD FOR THE BASEMENT!
MAYBE SOME OF YOU WILL SURVIVE AND BE ABLE TO CARRY ON!
GOOD LUCK!
It originally had an upward range of 2.2 million before they reversed themselves after the first week to 200K. They’ve been steadily dialing it back since.
LOok how EASY 2 people were able to shut down the US!!! SCARY!!!
Notice how nobody in the news business has lost their job from coranavirus shutdowns?
These models are supposed to be scientific. So why have they been so wrong?
And why should we even consider believing climate change “models”?
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