Revising the figures is easy. Repairing the damage done by lockdown is not.
If only it was as easy to undo the damage caused by lockdown as it is to slash the predictions that got us there in the first place.
It (already) hasn’t been the best week for the Covid-is-a-Plague establishment.
The Daily Telegraph today reports that the figures used by the Government to justify its second national lockdown in October were wildly exaggerated. Now that the lockdown is ‘over’, the figures (released by the Office for National Statistics — hereafter ‘ONS’) have been quietly revised.
‘Infection survey data released by the ONS on Oct 30 showed the incidence in the community in England had more than doubled from 4.3 per 10,000 on Oct 2 to 9.52 by Oct 17. It was partly why the Government opted to lock down the country on Nov 5.
‘However, the latest bulletin, released on Dec 4, shows modelling estimates have been dramatically downgraded.
‘The incidence rate for Oct 17 is now just 4.89, roughly where it had been for several days before it began to fall at the end of October, before lockdown measures were imposed.
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‘While the survey on Nov 6 estimated there were 44,100 daily infections on Oct 17, the estimation has since dropped 26,600’.
If only it was as easy to undo the damage caused by lockdown as it is to slash the predictions that got us there in the first place.
In spite of this, the propaganda will continue to infest our daily lives. Yet why, if the virus is so deadly, do the authorities think its damage needs to be illustrated wherever we walk?
Surely the above story should have made the covers of the papers today, rather than the silly warning that we must wear ‘masks for a year despite vaccine’.
