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I was born ready.

Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger.

This is Sarah Isger and listeners you are in luck. This is perhaps the least coronavirus-focused podcast in the entire internet today.

It is about 90% on judicial confirmation battles and Clarence Thomas.

We have in a few minutes a tremendous interview with Carrie Severino, who is the head of the Judicial Crisis Network.

She has been deeply involved in judicial confirmation battles, Clarence Thomas.

She has six kids and she also has some thoughts on what it is like to homeschool six kids in these days.

We are not going to spend too much time on that on coronavirus, so we can give that interview with Carrie all the time that it needs.

We are going to at least start with a note about the media and how hard it is to figure out what is really going on.

For the benefit of those who are not spending their lives on Twitter, which if that is you then God bless you.

I need more of what you have got going.

For the benefit of those who are not spending a whole lot of time on Twitter, earlier this morning, and it is still kind of spreading around, there was a news report that a scientist in the UK named Neil Ferguson had dramatically downgraded his projections for the past few years.

He had created his projections for the spread of coronavirus in the United Kingdom.

Now why was that important?

It was important because he was part of the original assessment of the potential harm to the coronavirus in Britain that pegged Sarah and Craig Meafam wrong, that if Britain had pursued its strategy that it adopted earlier in March that they could have around 250,000 deaths.

I see you in a flood of patients to the ICUs at eight times the ICU systems capacity.

Correct. Those numbers were then put on to the United States as an entire demographic and the number was in the millions.

Right. Exactly. So this was that Imperial College study that you've heard a lot about that influence the Trump administration's thinking about the United States.

It's certainly influenced the Johnson. Do you say administration, premier ship?

The Boris Johnson premier ship.

Yeah, whatever you'd like to say.

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