Trump's advisers released a 'beyond stupid' mathematical model of coronavirus deaths

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

created in Excel by a controversial economist

President Donald Trump and his top advisers have repeatedly played down the threat posed to American lives and the US economy by the coronavirus pandemic.

In some of the most infamous instances, Trump predicted on February 26 that the number of COVID-19 infections in the US "within a couple of days is going to be down close to zero," while Larry Kudlow, Trump's director of the National Economic Council, declared the virus had been "contained."

Earlier this week, The Washington Post reported that the White House is relying in part on a so-called "cubic model" devised by Kevin Hassett, a top economic adviser, that shows COVID-19 deaths plummeting to zero by mid-May.

This model, which the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released on Tuesday, contradicts all other data and modeling, including that the White House is reportedly looking at. The University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation predicts 135,000 deaths by August 1. Nearly 73,000 people have already died from the disease in the US, with about 2,000 dying every day over the last week.

https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-advisers-released-beyond-stupid-191328441.html

[PJMcK]

1. Trump is beyond stupid

Isn't it obvious?

[abqtommy]

2. Yup, and all the way to treasonous. It's obvious...

[Lord Ludd]

3. Kevin Hassett co-wrote "Dow 36000" 20 years ago

Keep working on those models, Kev.
One of these days you'll get it right.

[bullwinkle428]

4. I'll place a healthy wager on "black Sharpie marks all over the place"!

[LastDemocratInSC]

5. Alternative facts again. Outcomes based statistics.

[Midnight Writer]

6. 135,000 dead by August 1 sounds awfully optimistic to me. We're already past halfway.

And we haven't even "opened up" yet.