The economist Garett Jones recently opined that Trump’s scuttled hopes to release a COVID-19 vaccine a few weeks earlier “likely would have saved at least 100,000 American lives.”
Why the fuck are ECONOMISTS commenting on drug viability and safety testing?
Are they having such a hard time finding a virologist who wants to publicly admit that they want less safety testing that they have turned to trusting economists on issues they have zero education and knowledge about?
Economics has a lot of math in a good program so there’s a chance he could’ve been involved in some kind of like disease modeling. There’s probably zero chance they wouldn’t have worked it into the article of that was the case though
Former college econ major here. Can confirm. At its core, economics is a study of human interactions, with the emphasis on trade. As long as there is decent data, economists could theorize a model for all kinds of things and try to find relationships (or in this case, extrapolate a bit). Of course, since we're still under the narrative that 5 trillion people actually died OF COVID, the "lives saved" projection is going to be a touch high.
Its especially egregious since there's ample evidence (compiled by Steve Sailer and others) that Pfizer colluded with democrats and went AGAINST Trump to hold back the vaccine in order to hurt his election. Not that I approve of the vaccine; Trump's poor handling of covid was ultimately his undoing, and while the democrats sabotaged him at every turn he still believes the vaxx was this great achievement.
Why the fuck are ECONOMISTS commenting on drug viability and safety testing?
Are they having such a hard time finding a virologist who wants to publicly admit that they want less safety testing that they have turned to trusting economists on issues they have zero education and knowledge about?
I didn't even catch that. How strange. It's almost like they had a conclusion they wanted to bring, but couldn't find anyone credible to say it.
As you said - nobody in that field would publicly admit that they want less safety testing.
Why does Lauren Jobs want less? Probably something Melinda asked her to push for.
Economics has a lot of math in a good program so there’s a chance he could’ve been involved in some kind of like disease modeling. There’s probably zero chance they wouldn’t have worked it into the article of that was the case though
Former college econ major here. Can confirm. At its core, economics is a study of human interactions, with the emphasis on trade. As long as there is decent data, economists could theorize a model for all kinds of things and try to find relationships (or in this case, extrapolate a bit). Of course, since we're still under the narrative that 5 trillion people actually died OF COVID, the "lives saved" projection is going to be a touch high.
Its especially egregious since there's ample evidence (compiled by Steve Sailer and others) that Pfizer colluded with democrats and went AGAINST Trump to hold back the vaccine in order to hurt his election. Not that I approve of the vaccine; Trump's poor handling of covid was ultimately his undoing, and while the democrats sabotaged him at every turn he still believes the vaxx was this great achievement.
I mean, that and the stolen election.