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bronxiteforever

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Tue Mar 16, 2021, 05:52 PM Mar 2021

Lest we forget. One year ago today writing in the Hoover Institute journal,

economist Richard Epstein predicted that the US would see ~5K COVID deaths--a claim that influenced Trump's pandemic policy: https://hoover.org/research/coronavirus-pandemic… He was off by two orders of magnitude. Undaunted, he has bravely continued to offer bad COVID advice.

My Source is Tweet by Journalist Charles Mann


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Lest we forget. One year ago today writing in the Hoover Institute journal, (Original Post) bronxiteforever Mar 2021 OP
Ok, ok not bad. I see he was only off by 99%...... nt Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2021 #1
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