[LINK] The government's coronavirus modelling

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2020-04-07 at 18:10 +1000, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> I can't believe they have been making decisions on the modelling they
> released today. They may cunning but they are not stupid.
> 
> IMHO, the big questions are "What is he hiding and why?"

Two things. First off, they ARE stupid. They have demonstrated the
depths of their stupidity over and over and over again (CensusFail,
water rights, climate change denial, electricity privatisation, phone
privatisation, NBN, RoboDebt - the list is practically endless.

In this case, I don't think malice is behind it. I think they are
genuinely concerned that if they told people how big this thing is and
how bad it could get, they would have a panic on their hands. They
don't know how to release it and are terrified that if they do it will
show they should have done more, better, faster.

It's paternalistic and, of course, stupid. It's stupid because the
modelling WILL be leaked.

Regards, K.

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