Those of us that have been criticizing Trump for his extemporaneous method of dealing with this pandemic situation, had reason to pause yesterday when Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator, seemed to downplay forecasts of the virus' disastrous potentiality.
"Models are models," she said. "When people start talking about 20% of a population getting infected, it's very scary, but we don't have data that matches that based on our experience." (click here)
That was immediately seized upon by some as proof positive that the nation was being run amok by a cadre of Chicken Little scientists. How to argue with that? This wasn't the Cheeto in Chief talking trash but someone with credentials, a pedigree of commitment to science, and a history of straight talk.
Still, it made no sense to talk about data not supporting a theory and in the same sentence acknowledge that the data was nonexistent, as eventually explained by this Twitter user:
"Saying that 'facts on the ground' are not consistent with 20% of the population getting infected is really quite deceptive. Likely, no population has 20% yet infected (though we can't be completely sure until serologic testing is widespread)" (click here)
Still, who are we to argue with our trusted professionals? Till today, when she said this about Trump:
“He’s been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data....I think his ability to analyze and integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit during these discussions about medical issues.” (click here)
TRUST took another hit today.
1 comment:
As usual Councilor, you hit the nail on the head. If that law thing gets old you'd prolly make a pretty good carpenter! Uncle Tim
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