MiMi said:
The only player I can see benefitting from this is the media because dollar signs are involved for them. But in order for an intentional stall in raw case investigations to occur so that KBTX can report on a huge new surge, there'd have to be some kind of cooperation between the media and the health department behind closed doors.. and I'm just not buying it. But if the data is actually not being manipulated, then there's been a whole lot of slander tossed around here all willy-nilly.
No agenda for me here.. to my knowledge, with the exception of a couple guys I know who don't post on the case count thread, I don't know any of you apart from your usernames, and I don't have any friends who are directly involved or work for the county or KBTX or any other media outlet (and I'm a software developer working remotely for an Atlanta-based enterprise technology company). If my comments spark some useful discussion, great.. If your first impulse is to flame me because I suggested something contrary to the popular groupthink here, then I don't know what to tell you.. knock yourself out, I guess.
Every time somebody brings up the fear narrative or accuses some group of slicing the numbers a certain way to support a similar agenda, I ask myself why the media or the health dept or our elected officials would do such a ridiculous, disingenuous, immoral, irresponsible thing. NOTE: I'm not saying that it's not happening because the headlines certainly appear to support that line of reasoning.. I just want to know why that would be done. What is the point of attempting to keep everyone in panic mode? More clicks or eyeballs --> more money (or more funding)? Kinda makes sense for the media, but I don't see how some of the actors here would benefit from putting out false or misleading information. Plus, that's not just a one-man job. You'd have to have the cooperation of multiple people to pull it off.. and then an intern comes to your office and says, "um, this isn't factually true, so we're going to lie to the public?" How does that not get out? There's not a single moral compass amongst everyone involved?Quote:
I think I have the reason for stall in raw case investigations. With the number of true positive cases and hospitalizations declining, they are waiting for the right time to dump them all at once and declare a 'surge' in Covid cases to keep everyone in panic mode.
The only player I can see benefitting from this is the media because dollar signs are involved for them. But in order for an intentional stall in raw case investigations to occur so that KBTX can report on a huge new surge, there'd have to be some kind of cooperation between the media and the health department behind closed doors.. and I'm just not buying it. But if the data is actually not being manipulated, then there's been a whole lot of slander tossed around here all willy-nilly.
No agenda for me here.. to my knowledge, with the exception of a couple guys I know who don't post on the case count thread, I don't know any of you apart from your usernames, and I don't have any friends who are directly involved or work for the county or KBTX or any other media outlet (and I'm a software developer working remotely for an Atlanta-based enterprise technology company). If my comments spark some useful discussion, great.. If your first impulse is to flame me because I suggested something contrary to the popular groupthink here, then I don't know what to tell you.. knock yourself out, I guess.