{"id":1106,"date":"2020-05-05T22:11:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T05:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2020-05-05T22:11:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T05:11:51","slug":"may-5-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/05\/may-5-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"May 5, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every technical person that I know has been alternating between incredulity and despair over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouseCEA\/status\/1257680258364555264\">this tweet<\/a> by the?<em>White House?<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Council of Economic Advisers<\/span><\/em> (!!!) that contains a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adrianprw\/status\/1257768814214774785\">totally<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/potatoffel\/status\/1257758371324801024\">bogus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therriaultphd\/status\/1257724946240942082\">unmotivated<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JSEllenberg\/status\/1257435987703185410\">cubic curve fit<\/a> that creates the illusion that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdawsey1\/status\/1257395401461727232\">deaths will just &#8220;go to zero&#8221;<\/a> in mid-May.? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peteskomoroch\/status\/1257805310980263936\">We put people in jail<\/a> for less egregious falsifications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pressthink.org\/2020\/05\/the-plan-is-to-have-no-plan\/\">New visualization tools<\/a> from the FT.? Have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisalbon\/status\/1257789113857531905\">log scales been obscuring<\/a> how bad things are in the US?<\/p>\n<p>WH is considering <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BWJones\/status\/1257800959058513920\">winding down its coronavirus task force<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/pressthink.org\/2020\/05\/the-plan-is-to-have-no-plan\/\">the plan is to have no plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;go to zero&#8221; in mid-May.? We put people in jail for less egregious falsifications. New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}