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6/ I.e. "Prove that people who were gonna get sick didn't get sick!" That's a nonsense way of framing this. Instead, look to the places already struggling, in the U.S. and abroad, and tell us with confidence that would have happened if we hadn't distanced earlier. You can't.

8/ Yes, you read that correctly. So-called "pro life" conservatives stating we are "overvaluing" the lives of older people. Because fuck grandma, right? When you can have artisanal sourdough instead.

10/ It's very clearly *in* the Imperial report from the 16th March, too. There's no "back track" or "revision". The fact is we have not gone down the "Do Nothing" route. Read for yourself, Page 13: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf …

Wrong, Raheem. He completely walked back his mortality rate & contagion spread expectation, as the main basis for his incredible reversal. He didn't drop his death estimates by a 25x ratio based on social distancing, when his own prior estimates had far more dying w/ distancing.

They literally didn't, as I spell out nice and easy for you: https://thenationalpulse.com/commentary/revision-coronavirus-model-imperial/ …

They literally do, if you actually read their first report. They estimated 260k dead in UK; now under 20k, likely less than that, and most of those dying of virus would have died this year anyway, with their death certificate only thing changing.