Welcome to the life of a career bureaucrat, where being wrong gets you a promotion.
Run a useless model projecting a "worst case scenario" and release those numbers scaring the shit out of the public. Then when these spectacularly wrong predictions don't come to pass, tell us how their brilliance saved our lives.
From 1.2m-1.7m...now 100-200k
When this thing started, one of the employees at my workplace was spouting off on a group text, and she would precede every comment with "as a nurse" as though that gave her some special credibility. Then she would go on to do everything she could to fear monger the rest of my peers and kept linking us to a facebook post by an Epidemiologist [FONT=Roboto, arial, sans-serif]she claimed to know, that was predicting some 14m+ deaths based on his exponential BS.
[/FONT]I sent a thoughtful, bulletpointed response questioning our workplace's claim to reopen by 4/6, explaining how many things we do on an everyday basis that have much more risk than this disease (yet we keep doing it), how inaccurate all estimates had been on all the previous viruses (in particular, Ebola, which went from 1.2 million to ending up with less than 11k), how no one was going to just give them money while they were unemployed (this dumbass nurse was pleading with people not to continue to work on the side claiming there were people that would help them financially...biggest load of horse manure I ever heard), and how hypocritical our workplace had been by not making any big deal of us working inches away from people just the day before and then after they closed telling us we had to incorporate the 6 foot rule (this had already been out there for 3 weeks previous). They also threatened to fire us if we attempted to work outside of our location, realizing that contractors can't even file for unemployment.
Ironically, everything I claimed in my text has come to fruition.
-We will be closed considerably longer than their claim
-None of their debt has been relieved and even though there is a 60 day non-eviction rule, they are not relieved of paying their rent
-The estimate has gone from a range of 1.2-1.6 million down to 200k (bravo, but the original claim was clearly bullshit)
-We still continue to do things (and die from them) that are much riskier (note Zit's post #48). I actually cited in my example driving (3000+ deaths per day), and food borne illnesses (5000+ deaths per year). Clearly Zit's post was even more extensive but it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out (I'm actually surprised it took that long to come up with this list)
When I pointed all these things out and asked "the nurse" if she had any comments, she went right back to her stupid link. I told her this was no way to have a rational conversation, and then she privately texted me a political rant about not comparing her to the impeached one and a bunch of other insane stuff that had absolutely nothing to do with anything I said. I told her I didn't have time for her insane partisan bickering and to keep her politics out of this. We haven't spoken since (can't say I'm losing any sleep over it). An absolute fucking lunatic. Unfortunately, it reminded me way too much of some of the posters on this forum who do everything they can to start an argument but don't address a thing that people say to them (rather they ignore them especially when they can't refute them). I'm not sure why people waste so much time with a group of posters that are close minded and intellectually rigid, but I think for some, it's like a sport to them (and clearly with as much time as people have now, it's a past time).
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