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Decisive COVID model the 'most devastating software mistake of all time'
wnd.com ^ | 5/18/2020 | WND staff

Posted on 05/19/2020 7:25:05 AM PDT by rktman

The coronavirus death-forecast model that apparently convinced President Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to shift to a policy featuring unprecedented lockdowns of the healthy "could go down in history as the most devastating software mistake of all time, in terms of economic costs and lives lost."

That's according to two software company executives writing in the Daily Telegraph newspaper of London.

David Richards, CEO of the British-American software firm WANdisco, and Konstantin Boudnik, the company's vice president of open source development, were referring to the Imperial College of London report March 16 forecasting 2.2 million deaths in the United States and 500,000 in Britain from the coronavirus.

However, just 10 days later, the lead author of the report, Neil Ferguson, told a drastically different story when he testified under oath to a British parliamentary committee.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: borisjohnson; davidrichards; gigo; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hockeysticked; konstantinboudnik; neilferguson; russia; unitedkingdom; wandisco
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Ruh roh! Maybe someone should rethink this fiasco. Oh, sorry. Too late.
1 posted on 05/19/2020 7:25:05 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Bozo the Modeler turned it over to H1B subcontractors apparently.


2 posted on 05/19/2020 7:26:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Niel Ferguson actually has a HISTORY of sky high death estimates.

His projections led to millions of British livestock killed due to hoof and mouth disease projections. And it turned out inspectors were spreading it through unsterilized shoes.

He predicted up to fifty thousand dead from mad cow disease.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/jan/09/research.highereducation

He predicted up to 200 million dead from bird flu. Note that’s worse than the Wuhan virus and they still didn’t lock everything down.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke


3 posted on 05/19/2020 7:32:19 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: rktman

The stench of Soros?


4 posted on 05/19/2020 7:32:22 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Dr. Ursus

Meanwhile, in Climatelandia, all models are conclusive that climate change “could” kill millions.


5 posted on 05/19/2020 7:35:27 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Cloward-Piven is finally upon us.)
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To: rktman

After decades of dummied-down ‘education’ in the US and elsewhere, how can anyone expect that these ‘experts’ know a damn thing?

I mean, the ONLY thing any of them is ‘expert’ at is getting public funds for their BS ‘research’ …to prop up their BS ‘careers’… in the many BS journals, where their BS colleagues kiss their a*&es and grovel at their feet every time their mug appears in a NOVA special or publication!!! Talk about a ‘cult of personality’!!


6 posted on 05/19/2020 7:38:02 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: rktman

Maybe the dictatorial power hungry Dem Governors should heed notice.


7 posted on 05/19/2020 7:39:19 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: rktman

Next up: Masks cause more illness than they protect against.


8 posted on 05/19/2020 7:39:54 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Just sit in your house until the food stops coming and then starve. You'll be safe.)
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To: Dr. Ursus

And the stench of the fake news media. The drumbeat to get Trump was incessant and vicious. Most of us don’t blame him because he was damned if there was no closure and damned if he did closure. Couldn’t win either way, but if it pulls out it will be a win.


9 posted on 05/19/2020 7:40:55 AM PDT by Parmy
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OMG!

The numbers were wrong?

say it isn't so!!!

10 posted on 05/19/2020 7:42:26 AM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: going hot

I have some climate change charts to sell ya.


11 posted on 05/19/2020 7:45:05 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
It's all part of a global power grab, and related to the AGW hoaxters' global power grab.

12 posted on 05/19/2020 7:45:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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And then one day, they came and they said, “You have to close it.” I said, “You got to be…” “These people right here, they said you have to…” They came into my office — into the Oval Office, and they said, “We have to close the economy.” I said, “Let’s explain this. Explain this to me.” The greatest ever in history and we had to close it.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-30/


13 posted on 05/19/2020 7:46:11 AM PDT by McGruff
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Cheap, I hope.

If the paper is thick enough, I can line the bottom of my crow's cage.

They can also be used as IQ tests.

The ones who drool in glee fail.

14 posted on 05/19/2020 7:47:18 AM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: tbw2
WOO HOO! "I'm FINALLY off the top of that list!"


15 posted on 05/19/2020 7:48:28 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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Fauxi and Birx used fraudulent Imperial College model to urge shut down 

https://liberalsarenuts.com/2020/05/07/dr-fauci-and-dr-birx-used-imperial-college-model-now-confirmed-as-a-complete-fraud-to-persuade-president-trump-to-lock-down-entire-us-economy

https://judithcurry.com/2020/03/25/covid-19-updated-data-implies-that-uk-modelling-hugely-overestimates-the-expected-death-rates-from-infection


16 posted on 05/19/2020 7:59:46 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: rktman

Unfortunately, some will confuse the crackpot with the excellent Welsh historian Niall Ferguson.


17 posted on 05/19/2020 8:00:42 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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Software mistake? GIGO.


18 posted on 05/19/2020 8:01:03 AM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: rktman

Well outside of those Climate Change models.


19 posted on 05/19/2020 8:01:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rktman

So what you’re saying is... If the scientist came forward to world leaders and said this virus will kill 0.64% of the people who get infected, that they would have stayed open... Too late.

The economies of world have been devastated and they should round up whomever it was who recommended these lock downs and put them on trial for crimes against humanity. Millions will starve and die because of this nonsense and those deaths will be much slower and more painful than any of these hundreds of thousands or so covid-19 deaths.


20 posted on 05/19/2020 8:02:25 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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