Quote Originally Posted by gopokes88 View Post
I think that guys ridiculous worst case scenario model caused everyone to panic, overreact and now that it’s clear he was wrong, he’s trying to save face.
Warning people of what CAN happen is not the same as saying it WILL happen. Ignoring the extreme possibilities tends to make the science ignorers go on infecting at will. However, early intervention severely curtails the extremes from happening. The science ignorers will just say “see, the worst didn’t happen..I was right” instead of realizing the fear of the worst caused significant responses that insured the worst wouldn’t happen. Those who don’t want to believe will just go on ignoring reality anyway. Our governments late reaction threatens severely, but it did finally realized the real danger and acted to put a lid on it. Now we will see if there is any discipline or whether we will revert to shoot from the hip policy making.