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Post by shalom on Sept 15, 2021 14:48:41 GMT -5
September 15, 2021 How bad is COVID now? A tale of two charts
By Bill Choslovsky This is the image the government — and its media maidens — broadcasts: a red-hot map of COVID community spread gone wild. One look at it, and it rightly evokes panic. Five-alarm fire. Run — or at least hide — for your lives. The sky is falling, again. Mommy, make it stop! But insofar as government and media are supposed to be purveyors of Truth — which of course includes context — it is a misleading image. Instead, if the goal is to reflect reality and priorities — meaning risk — below is the better image. This image shows that a little statistic called "deaths" is down, way down. It shows deaths at near the low point of the 18-month pandemic. It arguably shows a wildly improving situation. Yet I had to hunt for this image on the CDC website. You won't see it on TV, in the newspaper, or online much. We should ask ourselves, why is that? Why, in an era with information at our fingertips, are we so manipulated? Why, when all claim to be singularly focused on "following the science," is one image omnipresent and the other omni-absent? In this case, the answer is, sadly, political. After all, remember when this all started — a whole 18 months ago — all the articles and graphs about "flattening the curve"? But do you remember what the whole point of flattening the curve was? Continued at link
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