I realize that many of my views make you uncomfortable, but I’m no fool. In fact, it’s the very reason that I’m not a fool that leads to my views making you uncomfortable. Because when I see something like this, I’m no sucker, and I know something like this is probably coming. You can find our discussion about it on this board starting around here.
If you bother to click through, you’ll read that the modeling team breathlessly predicted tragic disaster that – shocker, I know! – did not come to pass.
Though the more current report reflects the huge swing-and-miss the earlier report made about hospital usage, you’ll note this purple prose:
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is mowing through Arizona like a sharpened scythe. Fatalities are stacking up like cordwood in advance of a long winter. Barring intervention, daily cases and fatalities will double or perhaps quadruple before the outbreak collapses under the weight of natural, not vaccine-induced, immunity later this spring. The arrival of the more transmissible UK variant could both hasten and worsen these grim predictions. While Arizonans’ poor individual decisions are undoubtedly contributing to viral spread, the Governor’s inaction in the face of a clear and present danger is of greater concern. Most recently, he has performed more poorly than other governors, but more importantly, he has performed more poorly compared to his prior success this summer.
A sharpened scythe! Not just a scythe, but one primed just for the task. Bodies stacking up like cordwood! You can do with that what you want. But again, I’m no fool.