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You can say what you want about Jordan (there's plenty to criticize) but looking at politics in the internet age, (not just covid policy) it's hard to discount the veracity of this claim.
The Sad Truth I've Learned About COVID Policy (Pt. 1) _ Jordan Peterson _ POLITICS _ Rubin Rep...mp4
That's very interesting, as in the UK a lot of COVID policy was driven by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, aka S.A.G.E and typically backed up by the daily data coming out with the "two week lag" that most began to understand.
This was fine for waves such as Beta and Delta which did see an increase in deadliness (Even if their data models were quite a bit off) but all COVID policy shot itself to shit when it came to Omicron, where a totally innocent twitter exchange between a random Spectator Journalist, and the head of SAGE revealed what hilariously lazy hacks they were.
Despite data from Denmark and South Africa emerging and properly showing that, while five times as infectious, hospitalisations and deaths were going to be significantly less deadly (30% or less in a significantly less immunised population, as it emerged) SAGE decided to just.... rerun the DELTA modelling with the infection rate changed to "five".
That was it. That's all the work they did.
When questioned on such shoddy data modelling, they claimed they only ran scenarios which "required a decision to be made" meaning they only presented models with a hilarious negativity bias. Literal doomerposting scientists in the heart of government had been helping guide policy for nearly 2 years.
Which is... not what anyone outside of the cushy academic/government job ever does with a data model ever. To the point the lizardmen in JP Morgan ran their own (using the data from SA and Denmark) and found out what we're currently enjoying now, even with all the restrictions fucked off.
