COVID-19 has proven to be a brutal flu for those unlucky enough to get it.  Any new disease that's successfully left animals behind for human-to-human transmission is highly risky.  Nevertheless, the current insanity gripping the world is based upon highly dubious computer models, making those models as dangerous as a virus. On March 9, MSNBC's Chris Hayes attacked Trump for trying to manipulate downward the expert projections about COVID-19 deaths.  One month later, Hayes was back, attacking Trump for intentionally manipulating the numbers upward: The most cynical interpretation of all this, one I can't quite bring myself to accept, is they rolled out the model showing 100k deaths after they knew it would be less than that so they could anchor everyone to that # and take a vicotry lap when "only" tens of thousands died. https://t.co/hYiUCHhO5g — Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 8,...(Read Full Post)