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2020-03-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

'Point of No Return' Virus Models Are Panicking Officials Into Ill-Advised Lockdowns

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-26 05:59|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Maybe they panic because they understand how fragile the current social order is - who's better than then them: they've been actively breaking it since the onset of the Great Society.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-26 06:17|| 2020-03-26 06:17|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ " than then them" ---> "than them"

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-26 06:20|| 2020-03-26 06:20|| Front Page Top

#3 The lead guy on this is an Alaska Dem pol (see 'Act Now' about us page). A cursory exam of the participant bios revealed few actual medical professionals (possibly only one physician adviser/endorser), only geek modelers, accademia theorists, and grant seekers.

Jonathan S. Kreiss-Tomkins (born February 7, 1989) is a member of the Alaska House of Representatives. A Democrat, he represents the state's 35th district, which encompasses many Southeast island communities including Hoonah, Sitka, Kake, Klawock, Craig, Angoon, and Petersburg.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-26 06:28|| 2020-03-26 06:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Smells like northern VA. democrats:

ACT Now COVID-19 Alexandria, VA Response Fund Site

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-26 06:44|| 2020-03-26 06:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Those official are not panicking. They're using the opportunity to garner unquestionable unconstitutional powers over the people. Its the Reichstag gambit.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-26 08:29|| 2020-03-26 08:29|| Front Page Top

#6 panic + ignorance + bad data + naked political opportunism = Shitshow

Posted by Lex 2020-03-26 10:14|| 2020-03-26 10:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Reminds me of global warming, where worst case models are treated as baseline for political purposes.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-03-26 11:13|| 2020-03-26 11:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Y2K redux.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-26 11:58|| 2020-03-26 11:58|| Front Page Top

#9 #7 hits on something. Assumptions used in creating any models - global warming, Wuhan virus, whatever - are only as good as the assumptions used in creating them and who actually is creating them. An opportunity exists, once the sky-is-falling panic passes and some normalcy returns, to draw attention to the pitfalls and questions re the accuracy of the models.

Posted by York Harding 2020-03-26 14:29|| 2020-03-26 14:29|| Front Page Top

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