[ExI] Summer weather and COVID-19

[Darin Sunley]

As near as I can tell, the primary requirement for being an "epidemiologist
of high esteem" is an unfailing skill at predicting yesterday's weather.

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:41 AM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you can tell me /one/ quantitative detail an epidemiologist "of high
> esteem" has actually gotten /right/ over the past couple of months, I'll
> begin to care what they have to say. Right now they've cried wolf about a
> thousand times, so, I don't really care what they have to say.
>
> It was the advice of esteemed epidemiologists to not wear masks.
> It was the advice of esteemed epidemiologists to close beaches and parks
> and playgrounds, where no meaningful transmission occurs.
> It was the advice of esteemed epidemiologists that local hospitals
> shouldn't test.
> It was the advice of esteemed epidemiologists that tens of thousands of
> ventilators were desperately needed.
> It was the advice of esteemed epidemiologists to move COVID patients out
> of hospitals into nursing homes in New York.
> It was the advice of esteemed epidemiologists to "not panic" and keep
> crowded mass transit systems running.
>
> Do PLEASE tell us exactly what these people have actually gotten /right/
> so far.
>
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:26 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:06 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>> *> The study is not correct. I don't know exactly how it's wrong, but I
>>> guarantee you that none of it's predictions will play out in reality*
>>>
>>
>> My apologies. I was not aware that Darin Sunley was a epidemiologist of
>> such high regard that his opinion was more important than that of every
>> other lesser epidemiologist in the world so we should bet our lives that
>> Darin Sunley is correct, And after all, he gave us a guarantee.
>>
>> John K Clark
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