The scientists, who operate mostly in their own world’s of expertise have come under criticism and suspicion from the American President and others as American’s long for a return to normally from something they can’t see or touch that could hurt them with no cure….
The expert’s ARE making predictions that could or may not come true….
Scarring some of us and annoying others….
Running beneath it all, in a continuous loop through our national psyche, are basic questions leaders are struggling to answer: When can we safely lift these quarantines? How many people could die if we do it too early? Just how dangerous will this pandemic turn out to be? And what exactly should be our next step?
This is why epidemiology exists. Its practitioners use math and scientific principles to understand disease, project its consequences, and figure out ways to survive and overcome it. Their models are not meant to be crystal balls predicting exact numbers or dates. They forecast how diseases will spread under different conditions. And their models allow policymakers to foresee challenges, understand trend lines and make the best decisions for the public good.
But one factor many modelers failed to predict was how politicized their work would become in the era of President Trump, and how that in turn could affect their models.
In recent days, a growing contingent of Trump supporters have pushed the narrative that health experts are part of a deep-state plot to hurt Trump’s reelection efforts by damaging the economy and keeping the United States shut down as long as possible. Trump himself pushed this idea in the early days of the outbreak, calling warnings on coronavirus a kind of “hoax” meant to undermine him.
The notion is deeply troubling, say leading health experts, because what the country does next and how many people die depend largely on what evidence U.S. leaders and the public use to inform their decisions. Epidemiologists worry their research — intended to avert massive deaths in situations exactly like this pandemic — will be dismissed by federal leaders when it is needed most….
Right Wing kooks
Yep. Stand with the party and the nominee that believes in science
The Democratic Party and Joe Biden.
Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
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Yeah this seems important and suggests that a lot of Trump’s approval bounce comes from Dems and indies who are trying to express sympathy at a time of national crisis but have no intention of voting for him.
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Geoff Garin
@geoffgarin
A key takeaway from the Fox News poll: improvements in Trump’s approval rating are having no real impact on voting intentions in trial heats with Biden, and haven’t dented Biden’s lead.