Want to know why? Trump team received this over the weekend.
Sit down, please.
So that’s why Trump sounded so different at yesterday’s press conference. Per the Times, researchers at the Imperial College in Britain shared their model of the epidemic with the White House task force over the weekend.
My mental picture of the choice we’re facing right now is standing on a train track with a train about 1,000 feet away. At a moment like that, you don’t think; you jump off that track before you’re creamed.
So we’ve jumped by instituting social distancing — but now we’ve landed on a new train track with a second train coming at us around 2,000 feet away. That’s the epidemic once “suppression” measures are lifted. And now we have a broken leg in the form of a massive economic slowdown via our “jump.” What do we do now? We can jump out of the way of the second train too by keeping the suppression measures in place (assuming people agree to continue to follow them), but that’ll land us on a third track with a third train 3,000 feet away. And now we’ll have another broken leg in the form of even more economic pain.
The White House is already talking about an $850 billion(!) aid package to prop up failing businesses. How big will the package be when we’re on track two? Track three? At what point are we in the midst of a major global depression, which will kill a lot of people even if the virus hasn’t by that point?
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2020/03/17/latest-study-isnt-good/