anotherparent posted:SomeBaseballDad posted:>Alex Berenson has been analyzing the data on the crisis on a daily basis for weeks and has come to the conclusion that the strategy of shutting down entire sectors of the economy is based on modeling that doesn’t line up with the realities of the virus.<
NYT isn't a Trump safe harbor.
Maybe, but he is a reporter. Where are the epidemiologists and doctors saying that the models and the response is wrong? Why should they all be "political"? Surely if there are some out there saying something different, the media (on one side or the other) would find them? Not just some reporter who has been "analyzing the data on a daily basis." Heck, we've all been doing that, on here.
edcoach posted:There is heavy partisanship in the middle of a pandemic.
There was partisanship during the Depression. And during the Flu Pandemic in 1918. And during every crisis. It's only after the fact that a narrative gets written about what solved the problem. That's called history. Think about it, how long did the Depression last? We've been in lockdown for what, 3 weeks?
Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate, has said the models are wrong. There is a March 24th article in the LA Times where he predicted we would get through this much quicker and without as many deaths as predicted. The head of data sciences at Stanford has made similar comments. There are others who have ripped the models for making assumptions off of bad or incomplete data.