Hi @mtosterholm — In March you predicted the worst of Covid was about to hit, saying “I want to be so wrong on this ... I will publicly celebrate me being wrong if this [surge] doesn’t happen, b/c I just wish we didn’t have to go through this.”

So when’s the celebration coming?
Here’s the interview if you need a quick refresher google.com/amp/s/nymag.co…
The headline of this article is, “The Pandemic’s Dr. Doom Bets It All.”

If you’ve bet it all and lost, doesn’t that mean you’ve officially destroyed whatever was left of your credibility?

cc @JoeNBC, who recently claimed Osterholm “has gotten this right all along”

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Best part is when Scarborough introduces Dr. Osterholm — who has been one of the most reliably inaccurate Covid forecasters from the get-go — and says he's “gotten this right all the way through”
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Per @JoeNBC, here are some examples of @mtosterholm having "gotten this right all the way through"

1) At the outset, Osterholm said it's "nonsense" to wear masks/gloves to stop the spread of Covid
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