This is what garbage science looks like..and in this case, @washingtonpost and @Twitter@TwitterSupport allowed the fake news on the Sturgis Motorcycle rally to spread.
Only some fake news is too dangerous, apparently.
"WashPost article’s sole source of data comes from a non-profit tech organization called Center For New Data that attempted to use cellphone data to track spread of the virus....Unfortunately, tracking viral spread using cellphone mobility data is about as hard as it seems."
" The post article references only 11,000 people that were able to be tracked out of a total of almost 500,000 visitors, and isn’t able to assess mask wearing, or attempts at social distancing. How many bars are there to stuff into in Sturgis anyway??"
"And so it isn’t surprising that even in an article designed to please a certain politic, this particular sentence appears:
“But precisely how that outbreak unfolded remains shrouded in uncertainty.”
"Article is published in October precisely because SD is documenting its highest numbers of new cases now. It doesn’t seem to matter that the Sturgis Rally was held in early August, more than 2 months prior to the recent spike in cases."
It is embarrassing that the @washingtonpost wrote this article (instead of destroying the underlying science), and even more embarrassing that @Twitter, with their new found respect for 'truth' couldn't bother to deal with this terrible study.
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People Democrats should blame for the Federal Courts?
1. Harry Reid. He was arrogant and stupid, and didn't realize that when you change the rule, the other team always gets an at-bat.
Here is Mitch telling him I told ya so...in 2013.
2. Barack Obama. He helped ignite the worsening blockade of justices under Bush, and thus, GOP had no patience for his hypocrisy as President. He tried to filibuster Alito, failed, killed a number of other judges.
Then, he compounded matters. How?
Obama was the slowest President to nominate judges in modern history.
"Obama is set to end his term with dozens fewer lower-court appointments than both Clinton and Bush achieved in their first four years..."
"Fact is, our political leaders, in New York and elsewhere, appear to have made the calculation that, amid COVID, education is just not that important..."
"During last week’s debate, when President Trump suggested he’s eager to reopen schools, Joe Biden mocked him, sarcastically rephrasing his words (and doing his best to scare folks): “All you teachers out there, not that many of you are going to die. So don’t worry about it.”
"C’mon, Joe. To suggest many teachers will die is to reject science. And if we continue to treat schools as deadly germ factories sure to kill its occupants, kids and parents will suffer."
Here is my problem with the entire pearl clutching over the mask mandate.
First and foremost, masks are not some magical 'Cloak of Invisibility' that protects you from COVID-19. It is another layer of protection...but nothing more than that.
And not even the BEST protection.
SOCIAL DISTANCING is by far, by geometric multiples, more important for protection from infection than ANYTHING else. Doubling the distance of distancing likely diminishes risk of infection by a factor of 10.
Ironically, this will even be true after getting the vaccine!
Even with the vaccine, your risk of infection is not zero (for numerous reasons).
So until we can prove almost perfect effectiveness of the vaccine, social distancing should still be performed!
"The winter...will be “season of the vaccine.” We can identify questions concerning vaccine but not yet answers. When will a vaccine be developed? Will US believe it is safe? How long will it take to accomplish the massive undertaking of vaccinating the entire population?"
Cuomo has done as much as ANYONE other than Trump to convince people the vaccine is not safe.
Instead, if he was serious, he would have been leading the effort to show how states can implement vaccination...which he has yet to do.