As states hunker down once again, forcing citizens to don face coverings in public, it's become clearer with every waking hour that the China Coronavirus emergency is based on skewed and distorted statistics.
Anecdotal stories of false reporting of Covid-19 cases are a dime a dozen. Personally, the incident described in
my last column, where a woman with seasonal allergies was reported as a positive case by a doctor who didn't bother to listen to her, turned out to be exactly what has been pooh-poohed by the mainstream press. The patient was forced to undergo testing for the virus which confirmed that she was
negative, yet did that change her being tallied as a positive case? No. Once a health professional (and I apply the term loosely) makes a report of a positive case, based on no evidence whatsoever, there is no recanting and subtracting that individual from the compiled statistics.
- Friday, July 10, 2020