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| Former NYT reporter challenging the coronavirus narrative |
| 2020-04-11 |
| [FoxNews] What Berenson is promoting isn’t coronavirus denialism, or conspiracy theories about plots to curb liberties. Instead what Berenson is claiming is simple: the models guiding the response were wrong and that it is becoming clearer by the day. Seasonal flu would be ending about now, due to the warmer weather. "In February I was worried about the virus. By mid-March I was more scared about the economy. But now I’m starting to get genuinely nervous," he tweeted this week. "This isn’t complicated. The models don’t work. The hospitals are empty. WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT INDEFINITE LOCKDOWNS?" Berenson argues that those models have social distancing and other measures baked into them. As for further proof, he says that outside of places like New York there has not been a national health crisis that was predicted -- nor are there signs that the level of lockdown in various states has made a difference. "Now we're in a bad spot because there's clearly a dangerous political dynamic right now -- the economy is in freefall, a lot of people are hurting. If we acknowledge what is clearly happening ... the people who made these decisions, I think there's going to be a lot of anger at them, so they don't want to acknowledge it, so they say 'oh it's the lockdown that saved us,'" he says. Maybe it's time to panic the other way. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #3 Models are usually based on assumptions. Bad assumptions, bad models. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2020-04-11 10:39 |
| #2 Given that happened in countries that didn't panic soon enough (e.g. Italy, Spain, Netherlands) - a issue that the genius who penned the above never considered (have problems pulling his microcephalic head from his parochial ass?) ... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-04-11 07:46 |
| #1 You want to talk about Global Worming now? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-04-11 07:33 |