Oh, brother.
On Twitter today I encountered an Ashleigh Tuite, whose bio describes her as an "Infectious Disease Epidemiologist and Math Modeler."
She predicted that by July, even with lockdown, there would be 28,000 ICU patients in Ontario.
Actual peak? Around 500.
Today she's yammering on about why reopening schools as normal is a bad idea.
Why is anyone listening to this person?
I could assemble a list of confidently asserted yet fantastically inaccurate predictions from such people. As in, not even in the ballpark.
Is there just something wrong with this discipline that it yields predictions so out of touch with reality -- so much so that even someone like me, with no formal training, knew they had to be false?
Meanwhile, there's been an effort to keep people away from sources that disagree with people who have been repeatedly and embarrassingly wrong.
And there's our reminder for today.
It's not enough to be right if nobody hears you.
Same with your business, your product, your service, whatever. It can be the best in the world, but if nobody sees it, it may as well not exist.
And your revenues sure as heck won't exist.
Well, guess what.
Ol' Woods here knows what to do, after years of excruciating trial and error.
I've assembled it into my Traffic Academy course.
But our special launch price is on the verge of ending, and then it shoots up to $47.
If you want a leg up, here it is, from the old man himself:
Tom Woods