The code was wrong.
From Valor Guardians
It seems that the “experts” predicting massive die-offs
using “Ferguson’s Model” and insisting that we all impinge our lives with
lockdowns and social distancing were no experts. Instead they are a bunch of
amateurs pretending to be programmers when they are not professional
programmers, and every bit of code that they used was infested with bugs that
not only throw off the results, but can’t repeat them. Their response to this
error is to tell people to “take an average”, which is incorrect. Their
results were spectacular, grabbed news media’s attention and were wrapped
around the world like a rope.
But the spectacular always
gets attention, which keeps repeating itself until the curtain is dropped and
the reality of just plain bad, error-filled work raises its head.
So the entire world gets
put into pandemic panic and goes into shutdown when it wasn’t really necessary.
And no one has asked why we don’t do the same things during flu season, when
flu of any strain is just as deadly. Yes, I did wonder about the extreme
measures that have been taken to prevent the spread of this bug, which has not
worked, and why it’s been given so much attention when the flu can be just as
lethal, but – well, we all get flu shots, don’t we? And haven’t we forgotten
the panicky reports over deadly swine flu a few years ago, which seems to have
been forgotten? There was the Hanta bug a few years back, too, which was
prevalent in the southwestern USA, and was finally traced to mice as carriers.
According to the author of
this article, a professional programmer with several decades of experience at
it, their efforts have resulted in both inaccuracy and a cavalier attitude
toward their inconsistent results, which is a dangerous way to behave. When
software is so poorly done that multiple inputs of the same information produce
a wide variety of results, there is something wrong with the people who created
the coding in the first place.
Here’s the link to the
professional programmer’s article:
Read the whole thing. She
doesn’t waste words anywhere.
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