No, I'm not. You don't remember correctly nor understand, Irrelevant.
It's always been about deaths since people can have it and be asymptomatic.
The issue was whether the disease was growing at an exponential rate. From a death standpoint, it wasn't. Friendly Fred put the Texas death numbers up proving it. No daily increase in death in Texas represented an exponential increase. For many sample sets, the curve was flat or "flattening" or "even decreasing." The number of non-death cases are, especially at the beginning with inaccurate testing, are irrelevant like you.
"You opposed everything that was being done, right from the beginning." Hardly. Everything? I was definitely for sending the US Military hospital ship to NY. I was for building more ventilators though I thought they weren't needed in the numbers asked for.
I said "Don't Panic." Several times. We here in Texas aren't panicking. In my opinion, the people in Mexia have nothing to worry out. Stop doing things out of an "Abundance of Caution". Have a good reason for doing or not doing things that will change people's lives forever.
The model that predicted 1.2MM deaths was wildly inaccurate. The CDC death rate prediction was off a factor of about four in this country. We were shutting down the economy to keep the medical industry from collapsing. We bought that time. Time to start staging the re-opening in 95% of the country. It was time many weeks ago.
Don't Panic Irrelevant. This isn't Polio. It's not smallpox. It's not scarlet fever. You'll be OK. At this rate, as some people predicted, its generating the same numbers as the seasonal flu. Remember? We don't shut down the entire country because of the seasonal flu.
Thanks for the opportunity to correct you again Irrelevant. I was going to on other threads but friendly fred was doing exemplary work.
But maybe I'm wrong Irrelevant, you should panic. President Trump may win another term. Let's be honest, that's the nightmare scenario you and many others fear. Sad.
Originally Posted by gnadfly
Lies, lies, and more lies.
You wrote: "
It's always been about deaths since people can have it and be asymptomatic."
Bullshit. You have posted in several threads about the lack of patients - how hospitals were empty, how they closed some aid station in Seattle, how your drove past some drive-in testing facility and there were only a few people.
You were CLEARLY saying that there were no cases to justify the measures being taken.
And, of course, you ignore the fact that the number of deaths in INEXTRICABLY linked to the number of cases. The more cases, the more deaths. Especially once the hospital capacity is reached.
You wrote:
"The model that predicted 1.2MM deaths was wildly inaccurate. The CDC death rate prediction was off a factor of about four in this country."
More bullshit.
How do you know the model was off? The model said that if we did NOTHING, we would get 1.2M deaths. So, to avoid that we did SOMETHING - social distancing, self-isolation, lock downs, obsessive hand washing, face masks. That was the WHOLE POINT of those measures.
And BECAUSE we did something, we BENT THE CURVE and CHANGED THE MODEL. The new low estimates are because of the measures we took.
And, JUST AS PREDICTED, you are using the success of those measures to say they were not needed in the first place.
You have no shame. Which is worse than your overall lack of intelligence.
Originally Posted by Chung Tran
