Ye gods!
I feel they shouldn’t be adding deaths without telling us about it, But they do! They tell us that in every set of slides, YouGov website, ONS site and when they talk about the rolling 7 day average - they say "that has been adjusted for late data" and explain that late data once or twice a week. Jennie Harries last week spent a couple of minutes on it... that is a LONG time on one graph.
that does nothing for public confidence when this government want to be clear and transparent. Well, the public that watches, listens and reads know what the figures are!
That so we 600 actual people that are just added on there without mention Again, they were mentioned
and it also means that the death toll is higher for the days these deaths happened but weren’t counted. Again, they were counted.
I would like to see the real figures as everyone is jumping up and down saying the death toll is at its lowest without knowing what the actual tolls have been Again. You have convinced yourself of something that is not true.
THIS is why I have been shouting about Media influence and lies for so long. The government has put out so much data. That link about the tests, for instance. When interviewed one of the point made was that the government has been so insistant on putting out all data so as not to be seen to be hiding anything. But the problem,as we are alos seeing here, is that the load of data is not simple A+B=C and so the message is being confused. The criticism wasn't that they were lying but that they preferred transparency to being crystal clear.
The mass media role in this could have been to discuss the data sets and explain any perceived anomalies. When that has been done it has been really interesting and useful. But it doesn't make good headlines.
So we have threads like this!