The P&R Plague Thread (Covid-19)

Moiraine said:
The scariest part of all of this is that so many people, including people who used to post here, think our leadership isn’t really to blame. They can be utter failures and still not be held accountable. And here we are obsessing about a sexual assault accusation up against ~15 for Trump.
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Not to get all far afield in the Coivd thread but recency bias is definitely a thing. What people hear and see on the news is more important and front of mind for them. It's why October surprises are a thing. Trying to dump some bad stuff on your opponent at the last minute for voters to think about as they go off to vote.

 
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These are comments from Brazil's president Bolsonaro chronologically along with CoVid-19 progression. Remind you of anyone?

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knapplc said:
You guys aren't going to believe this, but Jared may have screwed this up some.
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Everything Kushner touches is wrought with incompetence and goof ups because he is an incompetent goof up.

I thought this blurb was particularly emblematic of the Trump administration:

Some of the volunteers were asked to create models projecting how much protective equipment the government would need to address the crisis, while others worked to project potential drug shortages that hospitals could face, according to four people familiar with the effort.


But administration officials deemed some of the models “too catastrophic,” a person familiar with the situation said. The administration ultimately decided to rely primarily on a model created by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington that has had some of the most optimistic projections of cases and deaths.
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Yep...it's all taken care of.  No need for them anymore.


I wonder how long before Birks an Fouci are shown the door because they contradicted Trump at times.  And..you know...we have Jared on the job.

 
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BigRedBuster said:
Yep...it's all taken care of.  No need for them anymore.


I wonder how long before Birks an Fouci are shown the door because they contradicted Trump at times.  And..you know...we have Jared on the job.
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Meanwhile:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8285675/Secret-FEMA-charts-warn-U-S-death-toll-hit-3-000-DAY-June.html


 


It's fake news! Trump says secret FEMA chart warning death toll will hit 3,000 a day by June 'is false' despite key COVID-19 model nearly doubling original fatality projections to 134,000


  • The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington released new projections Monday forecasting 134,000 virus deaths by August, nearly double its previous prediction 
  • Officials said projection is high due to changing social distance policies as states start to reopen  
  • Also on Monday a Trump administration model projected coronavirus daily death toll to reach 3,000 by June 1
  • That number is nearly double the current level of 1,750 deaths a day
  • 'This is not a White House document nor has it been presented to the Coronavirus Task Force,' White House said in response to the projections
  • Prediction a troubling sign of what could happen when US fully reopens as 24 states begin partial reopening 
  • Trump has pushed for the economy to get going again but admitted Sunday death toll could reach 100,000 
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President Donald Trump has dismissed the leaked secret FEMA charts that warn the daily virus death toll will hit 3,000 by June as 'false' and 'fake news', even though another key COVID-19 model has nearly doubled its fatality projection to over 134,000. 

On Monday two staggering coronavirus projections were released including a private model by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention pulled together in chart form by the Federal Emergency Management Agency that said the daily death toll of COVID-19 will reach 3,000 cases daily on June 1. 

That number is nearly double the current level of 1,750 deaths a day from the disease.

When asked about the leaked projection, Trump said: 'I know nothing about it. I don’t know anything about it. Nobody told me that.'

'I think it’s – I think it’s false, I think it’s fake news,' he said in an Oval Office interview with the New York Post, denying the leak but not the numbers themselves. 

The White House has said that leaked projection had not been 'presented to the coronavirus task force or gone through interagency vetting.' 
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