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AlmostWrong's avatar

I suspect, if we survive this, the only thing that people will agree about looking back was trusting "authorities" to record, process and analyze the raw data for us was probably the biggest mistake we ever made.

Everyone passes the buck, and nobody takes responsibility since it's someone else's department and they are just using "X" numbers published by "Y" authority. Something is wrong about having to beg for a simple time series without censored data and without aggregation and arbitrary binning and partitioning.

Yet, this is where we are. The data we pay our governments to collect and share cannot be collected or shared. And people's and entire planet's immediate future is being decided based on not even knowing simple things like if reinfections happen, what is the vaccination status and dose date. We will get a "rate" instead calculated with a fake denominator.

Thank you for keeping up the fight against this complete and utter failure of the system in every single country.

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MoodyP's avatar

None of this should be a surprise to anyone paying attention. They lie about everything. Why would Covid be any different. This is what they do. Why do you think that “official govt data” on things like CPI, PPI, inflation, M1, M2, unemployment, etc always get revised in arrears? And that the revisions never make any of those markers look better. They knowingly lie about all of it in order to minimize the sting. And the quietly revise what they previously lied about. Generally on Friday afternoons when nobody is paying attention. The entire system is corrupt beyond all reason. And corrupt beyond repair. And a massive percentage of the people in the system know it and choose to perpetrate and perpetuate the corruption. May they all rot in hell. I’m thinking that most of them will.

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