gougler08 said:
RenoAg said:
Any of yall follow EthicalSkeptic on Twitter? Interesting stuff. Not gonna lie. I don't completely understand much of it. Maybe some of yall might?
I'm sure Keegan can explain it
Keegan may be able to take a better cut at it than I can, but I have been following ES. I actually only set up a Twitter (a truly horrible medium for the worst of humanity's impulses to thrive) account at all when I saw the garbage analysis that media was doing around this issue, and ES's angle is an interesting one that is too math-y and non-panicky for any of the talking heads to pick up on.
From what I have gathered, his approach is to look at all cause mortality and separate out any/all detail that you can get from it. The big obvious thing that he hits on is the difference between dates of cases/deaths reported and when they actually occur. The issue with Texas' data being unprocessed is a prime example of ES's hypothesis playing out. They reported cases when received and then held on to them as they were processed and subsequently reported positive results at a later date. There remains a stockpile of historical cases and deaths that can be released at whatever pace "public health" officials want to maintain the idea that we're dealing with impacts that are worse than they actually are at the moment.
It takes a willful act to be misleading like that, and ES characterizes the restriction of liberties via intentional misleading handling of data to present it to a fearful public as a human rights abuse. I tend to agree.
Another local guy is JoeWo2020, he tends to respond under anything Hidalgo or Houston Health tweets out calling them out for what they are not saying using their own data. It is clear that we're being intentionally misled.