May 5, 2020
by eric
Every technical person that I know has been alternating between incredulity and despair over this tweet by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (!!!) that contains a totally bogus, unmotivated cubic curve fit that creates the illusion that deaths will just “go to zero” in mid-May. We put people in jail for less egregious falsifications.
New visualization tools from the FT. Have log scales been obscuring how bad things are in the US?
WH is considering winding down its coronavirus task force: the plan is to have no plan.