Trix, er, I mean Brix, tried to pull the same sleight of hand. The models were downgraded because of the all the measures we've taken! No, the models that were wrong, assumed all the measures we've taken.
The good news is, this is just the sort of bullshit I'd bet Trump can see right through, with all his years in business.
60,000 vs 120,000 that is a difference of .015 % of the population
... The prediction was off by 50-100%. That is an ABYSMAL projection. If an analyst in the private sector came up with models this bad for business forecasts they'd be fired.
I'm glad we will never find out.
I'd take my chances over 16 million MINIMUM unemployed in a matter of weeks with no end in sight, and any last notion of the idea that we have even a modicum of freedom torn to shreds.
Unpopular opinion: I believe Fauci actually has supported more of the president's statements than he's been against. He's explicitly supported the travel ban on multiple instances for example and he's made statements both pro and against hydroxychloroquine. He's just a shit spokesman with wishy washy statements which makes him a prime target for CNN and other lying media to twist his statements.
The surgeon general is a far more likable medical figure on Trump's team but the media is obviously going to talk to the guy that's inept on camera. And because a pandemic isn't really supposed to be a partisan issue (as if that would stop Democrats) it puts Trump in a tough position to fire him in a way that would probably appear or at least would be spun by the media to be partisan reasons. I think Pence made a good compromise by keeping Fauci on the team but banning him from interviewing with CNN.
ETA: tl;dr I just think the guy's 50% shit, not 100% shit. I don't think he should be on Trump's team, but I don't think it would be a good look politically to fire him.
The models were complete bullshit and instilled panic in the public and politicians- who believed even with full social distancing hospitals nationwide would not be able to handle a flood of patients. As Brix said just a few days, we were hopefully looking at only 200,000 dead with a nationwide lockdown. Turns out her prediction was more horseshit based on the Bill Gates funded IHME model. Why does it matter that Fauci and the model he was reliant on was wrong? Because by the end of the month we could be looking at 30 million unemployed Americans and countless small businesses destroyed- through no fault of their own and it didn't have to happen. There were researchers at places like Stanford and around the world, particularly in Germany, saying a lockdown was counterproductive and might in fact lead to more cases, not less (not to mention devastate the economy and in turn countless lives). Why? Because the virus is not as easily transmitted as the media led people to believe- a leading virologist doing research in "Germany's Wuhan" said they don't have a single confirmed case of someone getting it in a store. But locking people in their homes, resulting in close contact in a confined space, is an ideal situation for it to be transmitted. Look at Japan and Sweden, which had a much more laissez faire approach to the virus, and didn't lockdown the society- their numbers look much better than countries that engaged in strict lockdowns. No one is saying the virus is mot serious. With or without a lockdown a lot of people, especially particularly vulnerable people have died and will continue to die. But think about what Fauci has done to the economy in trying to combat this and who he relied on. I suspect he didn't provide President Trump with a full picture of what the experts were saying- he was too dependent on the Imperial College and later the IHME models.
Why would it make President Trump a bad leader? He has a ton on his plate and has to rely on the info he is given. He's not an expert on pandemics. If Fauci is not giving him a full picture that makes Fauci bad, not Trump. Having said that, don't you agree Trump was smart to override Fauci and put a travel ban on China?
You know what the model never accounted for??????
A fucking real leader who didn't give a fuck if you called him racist, for stopping the Chinese flights!
Jan 30 WHO states you can't get corona from humans
Jan 31'st stops the flights
Your goddamned right. Well said
Trump train 🚂 right on time
WE JUST CAN'T STOP WINNING, FOLKS! THE TRUMP TRAIN JUST GOT 10 BILLION MPH FASTER!
CURRENT SPEED: 359,959,385,117,000 MPH!
At that rate, it would take approximately 4.662 years to travel to the Andromeda Galaxy (2.5 million light-years)!
Trix, er, I mean Brix, tried to pull the same sleight of hand. The models were downgraded because of the all the measures we've taken! No, the models that were wrong, assumed all the measures we've taken.
The good news is, this is just the sort of bullshit I'd bet Trump can see right through, with all his years in business.
I don’t like Fauci one bit! He is a Hitlery fanboy!
The models were wrong. People haven't been social distancing nearly as much as advertised.
... The prediction was off by 50-100%. That is an ABYSMAL projection. If an analyst in the private sector came up with models this bad for business forecasts they'd be fired.
I'd take my chances over 16 million MINIMUM unemployed in a matter of weeks with no end in sight, and any last notion of the idea that we have even a modicum of freedom torn to shreds.
You're pathetic and you deserve what's coming.
Two weeks ago the models said 2 million. Now its 60,000.
Unpopular opinion: I believe Fauci actually has supported more of the president's statements than he's been against. He's explicitly supported the travel ban on multiple instances for example and he's made statements both pro and against hydroxychloroquine. He's just a shit spokesman with wishy washy statements which makes him a prime target for CNN and other lying media to twist his statements.
The surgeon general is a far more likable medical figure on Trump's team but the media is obviously going to talk to the guy that's inept on camera. And because a pandemic isn't really supposed to be a partisan issue (as if that would stop Democrats) it puts Trump in a tough position to fire him in a way that would probably appear or at least would be spun by the media to be partisan reasons. I think Pence made a good compromise by keeping Fauci on the team but banning him from interviewing with CNN.
ETA: tl;dr I just think the guy's 50% shit, not 100% shit. I don't think he should be on Trump's team, but I don't think it would be a good look politically to fire him.
The models were complete bullshit and instilled panic in the public and politicians- who believed even with full social distancing hospitals nationwide would not be able to handle a flood of patients. As Brix said just a few days, we were hopefully looking at only 200,000 dead with a nationwide lockdown. Turns out her prediction was more horseshit based on the Bill Gates funded IHME model. Why does it matter that Fauci and the model he was reliant on was wrong? Because by the end of the month we could be looking at 30 million unemployed Americans and countless small businesses destroyed- through no fault of their own and it didn't have to happen. There were researchers at places like Stanford and around the world, particularly in Germany, saying a lockdown was counterproductive and might in fact lead to more cases, not less (not to mention devastate the economy and in turn countless lives). Why? Because the virus is not as easily transmitted as the media led people to believe- a leading virologist doing research in "Germany's Wuhan" said they don't have a single confirmed case of someone getting it in a store. But locking people in their homes, resulting in close contact in a confined space, is an ideal situation for it to be transmitted. Look at Japan and Sweden, which had a much more laissez faire approach to the virus, and didn't lockdown the society- their numbers look much better than countries that engaged in strict lockdowns. No one is saying the virus is mot serious. With or without a lockdown a lot of people, especially particularly vulnerable people have died and will continue to die. But think about what Fauci has done to the economy in trying to combat this and who he relied on. I suspect he didn't provide President Trump with a full picture of what the experts were saying- he was too dependent on the Imperial College and later the IHME models.
I guess that makes Trump and Pence bad leaders then. /s
Why would it make President Trump a bad leader? He has a ton on his plate and has to rely on the info he is given. He's not an expert on pandemics. If Fauci is not giving him a full picture that makes Fauci bad, not Trump. Having said that, don't you agree Trump was smart to override Fauci and put a travel ban on China?
Amazing how all the pro-Trump posts are getting downvoted tonight. Must be a lot of bitter Bernie Bros brigading.