Posted on 05/19/2020 1:55:58 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...Ferguson’s model, however, isn’t the only fraudulent model that led to destructive policy decisions. Citing the Imperial College model, Dr. Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, produced another set of graphs at the end of March that expanded on Ferguson’s pseudoscientific “social distancing” demands.
Much like Ferguson, Murray portrayed plague-like conditions in the United States once COVID-19 took hold...
Birx and Dr. Anthony Fauci, without subjecting the raw paper to any peer review, presented Murray’s charts to President Trump at the end of March. According to the president, they then insisted he “shut everything down.” The CDC guidance, first implemented for 15 days, was extended to April 30. (Murray’s model has been updated 16 times since its March 26 release.)...
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
This was perhaps the biggest over reaction in history. Well, maybe since Austria-Hungary decided to go to war with Russia and Serbia over a murder in the Balkans.
Subject a medicine to clinical trials before wide use, but accept a computer model for use and decision-making without back testing and verification procedures . . . it’s “scientific”, ya know.
More evidence that Fauci is a fraud.
How is it that the CDC and NIH don’t have their own validated models?
The weather service can toss out spaghetti plots from no shortage of hurricane path models at a moments notice.
fauxcy, CDC and NIH are frauds.
Mass hysteria. Easy to get into but not easy to get out.
2.2 million Americans dead. Crematories seen from space. Parking lots as drop-off points for the dead. That’s what we were told by “experts”, all based off this Ferguson criminal.
You’re bloody well right this needs to be repeated over and over and flesh extracted appropriately. I want someone to pay and dearly. And I’m not going to put up with the excuse of “Well, it would have happened if we hadn’t...”
Damn...I thought this thread was about models...
Come to think of it Scarves and Fakey have been awfully quiet lately.
This May be a blog, but it discusses and provides multiple links in which Minnesota had 2 activists and inexperienced college graduates (no work experience) provide the models for the governor.
It’s difficult to get out of when decisions were made in the throes of hysteria. They are either trying to save face or it was about getting us to this ‘place’ by any means necessary. Either way, We were manipulated.
note the Ro:
10 Apr: MinnPost: Here’s what we know about Minnesota’s model for predicting the toll of COVID-19
By Greta Kaul
Here are some of the assumptions about COVID-19 the Minnesota model makes:
R0 : Pronounced “R naught,” this number refers to how many others the average person with COVID-19 infects. The Minnesota model predicts an R0 of about 3.87 (That’s an estimate; researchers acknowledge that the real value could likely be from 2.5 to 4.7). That means the average person with COVID-19 infects approximately 3.9 other people. That makes COVID-19 less infectious than measles, which has an R0 between 12 and 18, but more infectious than the flu which has an R0 between 0.9 and 2.1...
https://www.minnpost.com/health/2020/04/heres-what-we-know-about-minnesotas-model-for-predicting-the-toll-of-covid-19/
19 May: Minnesota deaths: 722; 15,668 confirmed cases:
10 Apr: Uni of Minnesota College of Science & Engineering (CSE): Modeling COVID-19 for Minnesota
One projection showed that cases would peak around April 26 in the state if there were no mitigating steps to slow the virus. The death toll in this scenario could reach 74,000...
Governor Walz relied heavily on these projections when he made his decision to issue a stay-at-home order on March 27...
The team uses estimates from China and Europe to craft some parameters for the Minnesota model because U.S. data is still limited...
https://cse.umn.edu/college/feature-stories/modeling-covid-19-minnesota
who has/is benefitting most from the West’s lockdowns/shutdowns? China.
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