[aimhigh]

So corrupt.

[cuban leaf]

bkmk

[snoopy 'n linus]

RW Reagan: when the government tells you you’re depressed, lie down and be depressed.

[Lockbox]

Just think, if Hillary was President how many more of her close advisors would succumb to Covid-19 and bullet holes or Covid-19 and hanging or Covid-19 and car accident or Covid-19 and south Texas Hunting Ranch pillow attack.....

Just posting for a friend.....

[jimtorr]

From the article: ....Philip Schmidt, a spokesman for the state health authority, told The Oregonian/OregonLive that the state’s data is not conclusive as to whether someone died as a result of the coronavirus. Rather, it shows only that they died carrying the virus.

There we have it. An admission from an official state spokesman that they are lying about coronavirus figures. I say lying, because the daily release from the Governors office always says "The state’s death toll from COVID-19....".

[Balding_Eagle]

If Trump hadn’t been elected president none of this would have been necessary.

It has even driven a large number of Freepers around the bend.

[Valpal1]

What this demonstrates is the level of laziness and incompetence at all levels of government. We are infested with actually stupid people presuming to make decisions based on knowingly bad data.

In the era of big data, there is no hurdle to collecting and separating the “from Covid” and the “with Covid” data points and reporting both.

The “with Covid” is an interesting and useful data point, but it is red herring for making risk based decisions. It simply creates a wider gap between predictions and reality.

The longer our alleged public servants try to operate from predictions instead of reality, the harder the backlash is going to be.

Reality has a way of bitch slapping the people who ignore it.