The data is out there, the bbc news site has information on levels in each area, and there is another site where you can drive data down to your list code
What you mean is you want it handed to you on a plate
Well given that the FT and the Manchester Evening News amongst others have been saying that people CAN'T get the data, and the information that has been put out previously is bullshit cos it only includes part data, making it worse than useless I don't think the problem is people wanting the data handing to them on a plate.
Jen Williams has been chasing this story for several weeks.
Earlier this morning she tweeted:
Jennifer Williams @JenWilliamsMEN
An anecdote about this: at one point there was both a pillar 1 testing centre and a pillar 2 testing centre at the Etihad. Manchester’s public health director could get the data from one but not the other. Couldn’t make it up.
She also chased up the claims about Wigan yesterday and said it was bullshit. Only for it to appear on the list today that Sky are putting out.
She has been getting increasingly frustrated during the course of the day:
Jennifer Williams @JenWilliamsMEN
Some suspicion (from me and others) that this list of places 'at risk' of being locked down - which seems to be popping up everywhere - is the result of briefings coming out of govt. As someone just said to me: "That then leaves people at local level to clear up their shit."
I'm not saying eg Wigan will never be in a local lockdown scenario. For all I know the numbers will rocket in the next wk. But if you're going to brief, at least speak to public health directors and understand the current situation
Otherwise councils then have to waste their time putting comms out to clarify things local people understandably are sharing like wildfire on social media that isn't right.
I'm very much of the same opinion.
The Guardian published an article today entitled 'Are covid-19 cases in your area rising or falling'. And it had a nice map with the number of cases on it.
Except it was the Pillar1 only data which both the FT and the BBC debunked yesterday as nonsense. The Guardian article did mention it in passing but the headline and the map gave the impression that the data was complete. So you could easily read the headline, see the map and not read further.
The failure of the guardian to identify the ACTUAL story which is that the data is a pile of pish and instead regurgatated it boils my piss. Sky have done EXACTLY the same.
So I tend to to agree with Jen Williams about this being a deliberate attempt to cover up the real story that the lockdown in Leicester was so late because the local authority there had NO FUCKING IDEA what was going on because of this bullshit outsourcing.
This outsourcing to private companies has been a total disaster.
They have claimed that GDPR means they can't share data. However one of the criticial exemptions of GDPR is YOU CAN share data if it is in the national interest in execeptional circumstances, y'know like a public health emergency.
Its total crap designed to undermine GDPR in all cases, at risk to privacy where it is merited.
Not only this, but there are serious questions about the quality of pillar2 testing. Not least the thousands of test results that went walkies.
This article is by Shaun Lintern. He is the best health journalist in the country (He uncovered the scandal in Shrewsbury which the police announced yesterday they are now investigating amongst several other healthscare scandals)
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-lighthouse-lab-milton-keynes-samples-alderley-park-glasgow-a9589401.html
Inside the coronavirus mega-labs
Investigation: Workers inside the Covid-19 laboratories tell Shaun Lintern about the challenges of ramping up testing
Its an absoluetely staggering read.
The whole thing is an absoluete fucking car crash and this is just the latest attempt to shout 'HEY LOOK AT THAT SQUIRREL' which too many journalists have fallen for, rather than look at what the real story is here.
Local authorities who have to run and manage local lockdowns are not being given information nor support from central government to do so, which is a complete recipe for disaster.
Instead we get bullshit comments like the one quoted from another poster, about how we are all lazy or thick.
NO THERE IS A PROBLEM HERE.