It's disappointing to see this flagged. Imagine the Trump administration was using a model with similar code quality to justify reopening the economy. We would

It's disappointing to see this flagged. Imagine the Trump administration was using a model with similar code quality to justify reopening the economy. We would not be making excuses for it, or flagging articles that criticize it. In fact, if I told you today that I was running the model with a certain random seed and getting a result that said the US would have <5k additional deaths in 2020, how would you even dispute that? The biggest issue with this link is that it's less a code review than a rant about the code quality, but the code is so badly written that it's hard to know where to start doing a code review.