{"id":51955,"date":"2020-03-26T07:01:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T12:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51955"},"modified":"2020-03-26T07:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T12:02:00","slug":"coronavirus-listening-to-and-rebutting-the-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51955","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Listening To (And Rebutting) The Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/coronavirus-listening-to-and-rebutting-the-critics\/\">Coronavirus: Listening To (And Rebutting) The Critics<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There a new campaign to convince us covid-19 &#8220;isn&#8217;t as bad&#8221; as we&#8217;re expecting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All through February and into early March, the media was awash with headlines that scoffed \u201cDon\u2019t worry \u2014 it\u2019s just the flu\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While most of those news outlets have pivoted and are now more likely to print sensationally fearful articles (the same who accused our data driven approach as \u201cfear mongering\u201d just weeks ago), we\u2019re seeing a new campaign now of opinion pieces by credentialed \u2018experts\u2019 claiming the virus may not be as bad as initially expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In today\u2019s video, Chris goes through a number of these recent articles and addresses them point by point:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8XPiHx8RgBM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As empirically-driven thinkers, at PeakProsperity.com we don\u2019t shy away from a challenge to our conclusions. We\u2019re of the mind that the best facts should win, and if the data changes, our analysis will change with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Chris doesn\u2019t find much in these recent \u2018expert\u2019 opinions besides false hope. And poor logic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which just goes to underscore why we need to continue thinking for ourselves here. So many of our \u201cleaders\u201d and \u201cexperts\u201d failed to warn and prepare us for this pandemic, for reasons ranging from politics to incompetence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So keep educating yourself. And we\u2019ll keep producing our daily updates and analysis to aid your understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you haven\u2019t read it already, read our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/lockdown\"><strong>Coronavirus Home Lockdown Survival Guide<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve written it to be a comprehensive collection of the resources you need to stay safe, sane and solvent through the covid-19 crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a great tool for getting everyone in your household on the same page \u2014 print it out and have them read it:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus: Listening To (And Rebutting) The Critics There a new campaign to convince us covid-19 &#8220;isn&#8217;t as bad&#8221; as we&#8217;re expecting All through February and into early March, the media was awash with headlines that scoffed \u201cDon\u2019t worry \u2014 it\u2019s just the flu\u201d. While most of those news outlets have pivoted and are now more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9860,29248,28817,29011,2218,855],"class_list":["post-51955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-adam-taggart","tag-chris-martinson","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51956,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51955\/revisions\/51956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}