Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Reply #4793 –
It's important for those interested to understand what they might be looking at and how it is represented.
Over what period the data is collected, how it is represented and how it is charted and what is it discussed against.
For example, if you are looking for a short term trend over the last month or so, then reporting the data as an average of the whole of last year or even from the start of the epidemic will misrepresent what is being discussed, the context of the discussion is important.
If a entity links to a logarithmic chart and makes a statement in relation to some earlier linear change, the graph can easily be misrepresented. Fortunately the links provided in some of the reports above allow the viewer to choose the data period, as well as the linear or logarithmic representation.
For example UK Freedom Day is a bit over a month ago, so offering a chart that averages the data from the last month data with all the data of the last year and claiming things haven't changed much is quite deceptive. Of course in recent days the average won't change much, it can't because the recent data is so small relative to the amount of historical data.
Of course if you are anti-lockdown it paints a good picture for opening up if you report that total pandemic averages have changed little in the last month or so since Freedom Day.
Sometimes when critics respond it can be the parts of the response that are absent from a reply that can be the real tell. For example, the current issue that the a massive percentage of recent UK deaths come from unvaccinated.
And also, if you were anti-vaccine it is not convenient to respond to the point that a large percentage of people currently perishing since Freedom Day are unvaccinated, regardless of however many deaths are occurring.
It's an obvious effect of opening up with a large percentage of the population already vaccinated, that you'll have an explosion of cases in unvaccinated. But the unvaccinated sacrificial lamb part of these events seem to be conveniently ignored by some!
In any case, we know that the high vaccine efficacy prevents severe disease, the vaccine stop people dying but they do not stop people being infected.