The 1% blunder: How a simple but fatal math mistake by US Covid-19 experts caused the world to panic and order lockdowns | September 6, 2020 | RT
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"uh, scuse me. I made a widdle oopsie."
"Whoopsie, looks like we accidentally created an authoritarian state"
"Gee, now, how did that happen? Was it the mind control, the blackmail, or the global human trafficking rings?"
I was never afraid of COVID. I was afraid of mass hysteria.
So "Nasa" "accidentally" "multiplied 0.1" "times 0.67" and got "1.0".
... Seems legit.
John Carmack, the father of FPS games, works at NASA and Occulus Rict. He'd kick someone's ass for messing up that math.
tfw you accidentally the economy.
Funny how the “mistakes” all seem to support the Left’s radical extremist agenda.
Just like all the "found" ballots are always democrat
And all those weird 'glitches in the algorithms' of social media sites always censored conservatives.
Funny, that.
Completely believable if the health industry hires based on melanin content rather than merit.
Ever notice how all these “mistakes” only ever benefit the left? What a coincidence!
Mistakes happen. Look at what a unit error did to a billion dollar Mars probe several years back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
Remember to use Hanlon's Razor.
https://effectiviology.com/hanlons-razor/
Many rules of thumb assume a sane society, but ....
Hanlon's razor becomes a convenient alibi for malevolence. Just make the crime look stupid.
Ockham's razor, just make your alibi a simpler explanation than the crime.
Once is accident, twice coincidence, third time is enemy action. Don't do the same crime more than twice.
In a high trust society, you can check for malevolence second, or third. This is no longer a high trust society.
There is no such thing as trust when fortunes stand to be gained and lost. There are only contingencies and constraints. Moreover, these logic tools break down when you're dealing with a sociopath or even your average empathy-challenged leftist.
It's entirely plausible when you consider that the Democrat base are genuine morons. These are room-temperature IQ government employees we're talking about here, it's a miracle they manage to wipe their own ass.
"They got their IFR and CFR mixed up and multiplied the likely impact of Covid by a factor of ten."
I get it... It's the NEW MATH they teach now🤓...
Don'tcha just love your Common Core?
Thankfully we switched to home schooled when we saw the crap the kids were bringing home.
There is hope for our upcoming generations after all.
I think you mean commie core
You mean communist-core?
Straight up War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity. Nuremberg 2.0 but exponentially larger and worse by a global factor. The world will know no peace without systemic justice, top to bottom.
...Jesus dude chill out.
Yeah lets just sit back and do,this over and over again every 4 to 8 years.
How can you write stuff like this, without even mentioning Trump? Are you a trump supporter? [trolling]
What’s Trump’s role in this, why did he go with “science”, Fauxi, etc.
Do you even Trust Trump (I do)?
Ever heard of draining the swamp? Which is deeper than anyone can imagine. Just takes time, complicated business.
You have fallen for the Dem trap: killing your enemies. Why doesn’t Trump do that (or at least jail them)?
How come Kyle was arrested instantly, his attackers walking free? Feds go for the total “kill”, not just the arrest of one person.
Helicopter rides. Pinochet was right. A bullet is too quick. They need time to think about what they did on the way down. And the little budding Communists need to see what happens when they terrorize a country with their idiotic ideology.
I don't advocate for torture, but that's basically what they've done to everybody. A taste of their own medicine, if you will.
A helicopter ride isn't torture, neither is a free fall. And the ground comes at you fast, so the death is painless. It's the least cruel method of execution possible and Pinochet made it very usual. Give them their quick trials and send them up.
Sometimes he would send them out over the ocean and drop them. I always preferred that. Recycles them quicker intl the food chain, cleaner on the environment, and youve gotta believe some of them survived the fall and died of something worse over a longer period of time.
I like that too. Jesus recommended they tie themselves to the mill stone and toss themselves in the sea for the same reason. It's easier for everyone. Since they won't do it themselves, that might be the next best thing.
When in reality, the official response to 'Event 201' Covid-19 was riddled with misfeasance and malfeasance. Nothing short of War Crimes, and Crimes against Humanity. I'll not let them get away with any sorry excuses.
Plausible deniability is the #1 tool of the corrupt
Not to mention blackmail.
Yeah, this is an attempt to manufacture an out, so those pushing draconian shutdowns can end them without admitting their own responsibility.
Event 201. All according to plan.
the general public thinks politicians are easy to buy off, scientists are even easier as they are more desperate for [grant] money than politicians, and like politicians, they typically will say whatever they are told to get that sweet sweet dough.
And when they don't, well just look what happened to the Nobel prize winning discoverer of the double helix of DNA when he refused to lie about the link between genetics and intelligence.
yep, they took his Nobel prize away.
I think they found the error 5 1/2 months ago. But why waste a good opportunity to hurt Trump? Why waste a good chance to get a taste of really tyranny? “Never Let A Good Crisis Go to Waste.”
And once the momentum started, there was no slowing it down. Media has had a field day with this. People locked in their homes glued to the TV and the constant death ticker. They are like attention whores who finally got everyone to notice them (and give them $$$).
2+2=5
"Red is grey, and yellow, white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion."
It's not really possible to make this kind of mistake and still be an expert. They should be hyper aware of these figures and should also have thoroughly confirmed their assumptions and conclusions.
This is why we should not be made to blindly trust those who are deemed experts.
It's simply not wise to blindly trust any expert. It's advisable to consider a second, or third, opinion. The extent to which money and corruption may influence any decision is always a factor to consider.
Not possible it is a mistake.
So is this the excuse they're going to go with?
Evil will never find a plausible excuse or justification.
They'll try. So long as we don't accept the lie they don't get a pass.
In the USSR, the government would intentionally tell obvious lies as a flex of power. The people know it's a lie but "have to" accept it.
Don't accept it. Keep the pressure on
First off I find it laughable that this entire shut down was caused by a “mistake”.
Secondly, Let’s pretend this was a mistake, all the people responsible should still be thrown in prison. When you have this much power you don’t get to make mistakes.
Just like you don’t get off scott free for negligent manslaughter.
This admission is their death knell. This goes light years beyond saving face or a mea culpa. These are the pitiable cries heard as they are marched to the gallows.
Fucking Tony fauci forgot to carry the 2?
the 10
No mistake. Purposeful and malicious.
...and ALL those responsible must be held accountable.
For negligent manslaughter
Boiling frogs, all of us. You are far from alone, bro.
No way. I'm getting louder and readier.
Gotta make it impossible for them to spout their bullshit unchallenged.
Which is why I still have a reddit account and will make a new one when they ban me.
And I ask folks on their dumb instagram stories if they really think riots are justified, then let them know what I think.
They need some good old fashioned shaming
Edit: readier is I'm preparing for the unthinkable. Si vis pacem para bellum
That's exactly what rt.com wants you to be.
rt.com is formerly RussiaToday.com. They are literally propaganda, trying to piss you off and foment division in the US.
muh russians
Wait, settled science isn’t that accurate?who would have thought
Imagine that! Imagine abandoning the scientific method the moment you achieve a profitable result. Oh, wait...
"Settled science" is never settled. If we had "settled science" as a yardstick, we'd still believe the earth was flat and the sun rotated around it, and other planets had little dancy squiggles in their orbits because the gods were drunk. Those are all "settled science". Or were, at least, until someone came along and UN-settled them.
The "law" of the conservation of matter? Needed an update to energy, since matter and energy are interrelated so matter COULD be created or destroyed in a closed system if you didn't look at energy. The "law" of gravity has been updated many, many times, and gets upgraded further each time we learn more about subatomics.
Anyone who says something is settled science, is anti-science. Let them know that it is not, in fact, the gods warring when there's a lightning storm, despite that having been settled science at one point.
Yay! Someone else who understands how science actually works. Now do "most scientists agree"...
Dude, flat earth was "settled science" back in the day.
Genius killshot for "settled science" arguments
The cure was worse than the illness. This is true for every government policy, whether it is the environment or the economy.
Worse by a factor of ten, fourteen or more, depending on the country. It's impossible for my brain to juggle all of the statistics and facts, but I recall some developing nations had something in the neighborhood of seventy times the number of non Covid-19 fatalities due to lockdown measures.
I can confirm that the Netherlands had <10k death of which only about 70 were without pre-existing conditions. But because of delayed procedures alone more than 100k people are estimated to die. This doesn't include deaths by loneliness and suicide. The number of amputations have skyrocketed as well, because people are discouraged to go to the doctor. It is well known that any damage to the economy will result in increased mortality and the economy has been destroyed beyond recognition.
A million tests using a test with 90% specificity results in 100,000 false positives, even if the virus is made up.
Worse yet are the tests found that will infect you with Covid-19.
JFC.
Seriously???
A 'lock step' script, no less.
The new excuse. Math is racist!
I feel bad for the author. RIP
Two self inflicted shotgun blasts to the back of the head. Sad.
...while hanging from a door knob by a red scarf.
Uh oh HAHAHA. We called their bluff, now the backpedaling begins.
I get the feeling they won't like the chasm they're backpedaling towards.
"If you should go skating
On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you the silent reproach
Of a million tear stained eyes
Don't be surprised, when a crack in the ice
Appears under your feet
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind
With your fear flowing out behind you
As you claw the thin ice"
Math doesn't tell you to trample on human dignity regardless of how badly you fuck it up. That's entirely on the shoulders of the policy makers.
That's what I usually say when people blame "covid" for something: "It's not because of covid, it's because of government."
2+2= Seize the means of production!
^ Yup.
here is a link to the original. use this to avoid compliants that it is "russian propaganda" :)
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/09/04/covid-why-terminology-really-matters
"You see that guy who just crashed his motorcycle there on the roadway? Yeah, we're sending him to the hospital. What? Yeah he's fine, but he died of COVID."
Uh-oh spaghettios
"When researchers look back at this pandemic, they’ll have absolutely no idea who died because of Covid, or who died –coincidentally– with it. Everything’s been mashed together in a determined effort to make the virus look as deadly as possible."
Don't worry, the same people peddling these fake numbers will be the people outraged by the fake numbers in a couple weeks.
It’s worse than that- it was a “mistake” with a safe, inexpensive cure readily available called HCQ/Zinc/AZT
I like to think Glibal, Banking move with soft compliance by a herd of sheeple.
I might be crazy. But at least I keep my autonomy.
The horror is that they refuse to walk back this fallacy
They are obviously compromised.
Why are we blaming "experts" in the USA now? What about that one man with the UK government, some science or health sector drone, who had a hard-on for years over lockdowns, and who had a worse math error that led to mass lockdowns ; wasn't he off by a way larger margin than 1%-? And then he got caught ignoring the lockdowns in the UK to see his GF who's married to some other guy-? Come on ; I can't be the only person who remembers (barely) him, from back in April-???
In mid April I did the math myself. I used population sizes, current deaths and positives and came up with .0083 which is very close to the actual number of deaths. I have saved the texts I sent my wife showing that we were being bullshitted or at best grossly misrepresented with my numbers.
One of the real burning questions is about the Chinese and when they figured this out. We know that at best an accident at the Wulab caused the initial outbreak but was the Wuhan shutdown a show of propaganda at the highest levels. I’m starting to think that was part of the orchestration so others would follow suit.
It was a rounding error this whole time !!!
Oopsie we screwed up the math, don't vote for Trump because it's all his fault!
I'll say it again, if a surgeon makes a mistake and removes the wrong leg are they not liable? If a mortician makes a mistake and cremates the wrong body are they not liable? If the secretary uses rat poison instead of skinny and sweet sweetener by mistake are they not liable? There for when big Tech and the government make mistakes are they not liable?
All those involved in this dempanic need to be held accountable.
Hanlon's Glasses: "Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice."
Wow! This one should be stickied!!
If you're tired of this shit and know others who are too, get them to register to vote! Lots of passionate Trump supporters are not registered, do it today:
https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote#item-212645
No mistake, it was on purpose.
You can't undo a "mistake". That was the entire plan from the very beginning.
My aunt , is mad that I linked this story because it’s published by RT which is apparently Russian owned.
I like how they’re trying to blame the USA when it was originally China that released footage of people “dying in the streets” and the worthless WHO tweeting how deadly it was.
Thank you Russia Times
"""""mistake"""""
Whenever something seems fishy it was always an innocent math or programming """"mistake"""" every single time. Don't question anything you nontechnical nonmathmatical little people. Just listen to us.
This article is nonsense. Google and the other China/Russia puppets were claiming most who caught the virus would die. I catalogued it with the first several posts I made here, with their own charts.
"Trust the science"
Right. It was just a simple 'mistake'.
Can we get a second source? RT is... A step better than directly from China's mouth, but directly from Russia's mouth still doesn't inspire confidence. It could very well be true, likely is, but the very first response when sharing will be ">using Russia Today".
On the plus side, this lie can help Trump. Experts predicted 2.2 million Americans would die, with 1.1 million dying EVEN IF Trump did everything they said he should do.
That means EVEN IF you take the 180,000 death count as valid, Trump did a helleva job saving the lives of about 1-2 million people.
Not sure if I buy it, but interesting.
RT is Agitprop: [MAY 2020] Professor Pantsdown’s ‘Stay At Home’ lockdown advice based on badly written and unreliable computer code, experts say
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11642959/neil-ferguson-stay-at-home-lockdown-advice-unreliable-code/
A mistake they had been planning for 10 years.