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Originally Posted by Crowbob
We also have a president who did a 180 at some point. He is being criticized for not turning soon enough. Then in shockingly quick succession, many states put out very severe executive orders. And now we have a virtual national shut-down doing enormous economic damage. Congress is passing huge financial rescues which everybody knows we can't afford. Are these governors, congress, the medical community and the president all being tricked?
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No - they were simply made aware of multiple epidemiological models - all of which predicted > 1 million US deaths if no control measures were implemented
Itis to Trump's credit that he did a 180, but to his detriment that he poo-poo'ed the situation for a month or longer
Here is a graphic based on those models:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/20/us/coronavirus-model-us-outbreak.html