Politics Coronavirus Politics Edition!

of course he's guessing...everybody is. If I say 100,000, based on some model...I'm guessing. That's the nature of predicting the future, it's all guesses.

 

Seems like it would depend on whether you're talking projections for this first wave, through the second wave, or throughout the pandemic.

 

sigh... Your statement is "Trump is guessing." My statement is< "Trump is not guessing, he is using the numbers from the pandemic team."

If you want to say they are guessing, then that's fine, but his numbers are what the team is guessing for him.

 

The 140-200k projections from IHME were what the numbers would be in June. It wasn't focusing additional waves.

 

yes, I'm saying he's guessing, and I'm also saying he should put a cork in it. But of course, a spastic aardvark with a learning disorder could figure out what his motivation is for continuing to try and peg the number

 

Definitely agree to put a cork in it when it comes to repeating anything from these shitty models

 

trump might be able to project better information if he actually listened to briefings and the experts rather than his "gut".

 

Nein, sondern Ich spreche ein bisschin Deutsch.

 

100,000 to 240,000 with mitigation seems like a credible number. I'm going to predict that it's closer to 240,000 than 100,000.

 

uuhhhhhh,mmmmmmm...

Poquito espanol?

 

I want to see the national death numbers under 60 that are from coronavirus only, as some doctors are stating there is pressure on them to note C19 on the death certificate even if it wasn't the main reason for death.

 

I would think the count should be for the calendar year as that's how other deaths and illnesses are listed aren't they?

 

I don’t trust the models one bit. It’s not about modeling anymore. I think we know how infectious this disease is. It’s just gonna have to run its course and mitigate on every spike until a vaccine or therapeutic treatment is discovered.

 

I think that's kind of a false way of looking at it. My mom had lung cancer, but s. he died of respitory failure but it was because of the cancer. If we don't keep accuraate numbers of covid related illnesses and deaths then the scientist won't have accurate data. We need to be able to create an accurate data base to understand it better because before this we had none.