You are suffering from hindsight bias. You think that what we know now we knew then.Here's something I knew. (Posted March 4th, 2020 under the thread "Coronavirus".)
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"EVEN NOW, the CDC’s guidance, though, still says that people who haven’t traveled to countries with outbreaks and who have not been in contact with people sick with COVID-19 shouldn’t be tested unless they’re sick enough that they need to be hospitalized. That guidance likely won’t be sufficient to pick up any virus spreading among people who don’t get severely ill, which is around 80 to 85 percent of cases.
That CDC guidance could, however, work very well to limit the number of cases identified. But who would want to limit the # of cases identified??? Can you say T rump?"
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(We now know that the tRump has been influencing what the experts say, all along.) So adequate testing never got going. It still hasn’t.
That was not hindsight. But by that time, the tRump had already been announcing that virus patients would go to zero and that the virus would go away in the warmer weather of April.
I had foresight that you did not, mr illogic. Back in early March we see what your stance was on testing for COVID was. I with reasonable foresight was vociferously arguing FOR adequate amounts of testing.
You were arguing (Coronavirus Post # 324139) that what you called “panic” about recognizing the need for testing was “irrational”. In the same post you scoffed at South Korea for having done so much testing. (btw S. Korea has dealt effectively with COVID. But thanks to jokers like you we have done the worst job in the world for a 1st world nation, in dealing with the Pandemic.
I said
"Right now, let’s just focus on the screw up of not getting testing going for the emerging pandemic. Let’s just blame whoever it was that got rid of the CDC Pandemic Task Force in 2018. And let’s blame the guy who cut funding for the CDC in 2017, 2018, & 2019. And let’s blame whoever it is that gets rid of science based career people who work in govt agencies if they are not gushingly loyal to a certain DOTUS. How about we blame that guy who keeps saying we shouldn’t test anyone who is not showing symptoms, and then gets a test for himself when not showing symptoms? How about that guy who LIES to the American public, constantly? Might we blame him?
That is something I could still say today, but I posted it on March 15th (with foresight, not hindsight). At that time there were maybe a couple of dozen deaths in the US. You said it was paranoia and argued against more testing.
1 month later we were averaging 2188 deaths a day (on the 7 day moving average.)
You were wrong. You think that taking in any kind of historical information is “hindsight” and is therefore not useful. That is REALLY WRONG HEADED.
You have no clue about foresight. It is based on info that already exists (and is therefore what you call “hindsight”.)
And you were not only wrong. You were fatally wrong.