Significant as compared to...? What makes the number significant?
Significant compared to cities without riots and vandalism. A quick search on "cost of 2020 riots" shows a common result of "most expensive riots in US history, so I would presume that would be signficant.
And why would property damage require federal intervention? is the outlaying of resources commesurate with the threat?
I don't believe I've made any claim that property damage would require federal intervention, but damage to federal property allows for federal intervention to protect. Great question on resources consumed - does any government need to complete an economic analysis on cost vs benefit before acting? Wouldn't that slow the response? Would that lead local governments to ignore damage to low property value neighborhoods and only intervene when more valuable property was threatened?
I get that you’re still hung up on the semantics of the wording
Well, one statement was the truth and the other statement was a lie, so yeah, I'll continue to differentiate those.
, but if the DHS is declaring white nationalist terrorism the gravest domestic terror threat, how does left wing rioting rank in comparison? What is DHS using as their metrics that you disagree with?
I consider the total terrorist threat to the US for any source to be so minuscule as to only be a political, not a public safety issue. More people die every year from choking on their own vomit than from all terrorist events. Terrorisim is a boogey man.
Your covid remarks are the opposite of data analysis. You ask for more data and then insist on a conclusion you’ve come to by saying “Nuh uh.” Is there a more technical term for “Nuh uh?”
You're absolutely wrong. If we accept the gross numbers of deaths attributed to Covid as the true impact to the death rate without any actual analysis incorporating analysis into how the deaths were attributed to Covid, is that attribution medically sound, is it consistent from geography to geography or from time period to time period, and are there lower than expected deaths from other causes that could be netted out against the gross Covid number, then we've not done even the basics with regards to statistical analysis of the impact of Covid to the death rate of the US.
My conclusion, IIRC, was " there isn't any reason to believe that well over 100,000 additional deaths over the normal annual death toll in the US were caused by Covid.". Do you disagree with this conclusion?
This is why bringing up personal career is a bad call. You might think you’re grabbing authority, but all you’re doing is revealing that you either don’t have the gig or you’re bad at it.
My words speak for themselves, and you're hardly the one to judge my abilities.[/quote]