The Official COTY 2021 thread

[AtW]

Rules: we collect quotes here worthy of the Awards to be decided in December 2021.

Nominated d000hg for the following -

OK so these are imaginary future deaths, not real ones. Thanks for clarifying, I will give your forecasting the attention it deserves.

for responding to upstanding netizen with flawless reputation -

10s of thousands of excess unnecessary deaths that will now happen over the next 12 months because he lifted lockdown too early in order to "save Xmas"

Even an cretin like yourself should understand how that virus works by now

[d000hg]

Rules: we collect quotes here worthy of the Awards to be decided in December 2021.

I'll gladly stand by any post I make calling you stupid. You keep quoting them.
Although I assume the mods might not like it.

[AtW]

I'll gladly stand by any post I make calling you stupid. You keep quoting them.

Why quote that when I can quote you calling tens of thousands of people who will inevitably die over the months as "imaginary future deaths, not real ones"

Anyway, the new rule of the COTY 2021 is that nominants are not allowed to influence the decision making of the secret judge panel by disputing matters related to their nomination.

[d000hg]

Please form a concrete, testable prediction.

[AtW]

Please form a concrete, testable prediction.

Ok, my concrete, testable prediction is that you will be one the COTY 2021 winners at the end of this year.

[d000hg]

Ok, my concrete, testable prediction is that you will be one the COTY 2021 winners at the end of this year.

Running away already? You've derided my dismissal of your claim that Boris has caused additional 10s of thousands of (future) excess deaths, so you need to define "additional".
You cannot simply point to "there were a lot of deaths" in Q1 2021 because there were going to be anyway, you need to prove there were a lot MORE.
So shall we try to agree what the case-count would have been? You'll need to specify exactly which decisions should not have happened too. The easing of lockdown 2, are you claiming we should have remained in national lockdown all this time as your baseline?

[AtW]

The easing of lockdown 2, are you claiming we should have remained in national lockdown all this time as your baseline?

Yes, obviously, then we'd be at far lower base - mild relaxation would have allowed us to get to March-April with vaccinations running at full speed and weather favouring us.

But now we got 2 cold months ahead with 50k+ baseline before Xmas/NY spikes manifest themselves (in the next 2-3 weeks).

[d000hg]

What were the daily cases on the day we returned to local restrictions?
And how much difference do you think lockdown 2.0 would've made to the spread of covid 2.0?

And of course, was there much evidence or call to remain under national lockdown 2 all the way until Spring at the time? I remember a lot of dissatisfaction that London was T2 not T3 but the devolved nations were for instance broadly acting in the same way as England.

[AtW]

Dear Candidate, this is the wrong thread to dispute your Candidacy, links were given to the original thread in question, please do it there.

[d000hg]

No thanks. Proving your inability to back a testable prediction can be done in both threads.