Politicians enamoured of models spend all of their time reacting to fake hypothetical future scenarios rather than to concrete present events When models fail — which is all the time — the excuse is always that containment has prevented whatever doom scenario the model predicted
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Models have thus become unassailable unfalsifiable shibboleths that can also be made-to-order to justify any policy whatsoever Want to win at Corona management? Impose reasonable policies in response to things that are actually happening and fire all your modellers
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