Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post

I haven't seen anything on Republicans trying to get pork in the bill. Got a link? I'm not beyond agreeing with Dems. Like Sisolak. At first I was against his banning of hydroxychloroquine. I found out it was still okay to use in hospitals and his move was to protect the supply from hoarding by doctors for themselves, family and friends which was causing shortages. I even posted up online that I agreed with Sisolak.

Do you remember H1N1? It hit in April, 2009. Infected 60 million Americans. 17,000 died. Obama didn't declare an emergency until October after 1100 people died. He never put on a travel ban. He didn't shut down the economy. He received great praise from the media for his handling of the virus. The truth is Obama didn't deserve any praise at all.
To put things in proper mathematical context, the current U.S. death projection for this is 80,000 if current restrictions are tightened up.
I think you better take a look at the new models.

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrW...0ZLgKvQ_SGm1g-

Just a reminder about using outlier studies to make arguments. The Stanford study, which assuredly was well done, had results not in line with virtually all of the other studies' conclusions. To pluck this particular study out and use it to make a case for something demonstrates the problems of sampling bias and confirmation bias.

Now if mickey had seen outlier numbers for slot results or sports handicapping results, he would never have plucked those outlier results as evidence of anything. Yet he chose to post the Stanford projection, even though it was out of line with any other projections at the time.

The fatality projections here turned out to be clearly wrong by a wide margin. This is usually what happens when you highlight outlier results.

In science, enough studies are done on virtually every topic, some published, most not, that if you pick and choose to make a case for anything, you can pretty much do it. Pigs can fly if you push them off a cliff and end the study before they hit the ground.