My point to EVERYONE is to look further than the headlines. Dr Fauci’s comments on the worst case scenario total number of fatalities of this pandemic are being lauded by the MSM as “absolutes”, when they are anything but. These forecasts are based on computer modeling. Modeling assumes certain factors. Change the assumed factors with hard data the result of the modeling changes; sometimes radically as in the overall COVID-19 death totals for Great Britain(500,000 to 20,000). For 200,000 people to die of COVID-19 before the forecasted peak of mid April, tens of thousands would have to die over the next two weeks., but this is the narrative that is being propagated by the media. The actual data from Italy and Spain do NOT suggest a death rate this extreme but people are ignoring the data and accepting the narrative. I am a coldly cynical, rational realist. I look at things based on FACTS, not emotion. IMO, emotion is affecting decision making far too much.
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Dr. Thomas Sowell
Last edited by Stuart; 04-01-2020 at 08:27 AM.
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