[Margaret Pilkington]

Monkey Hanger, the graphs are meant to bamboozle and they are meaningless without context.
It is like the polls that suggest that Scotland would win the next referendum because 52%
Would vote in favour....what it does not tell you(or if it does it is in tiny print at the end of the article) is that they sampled 1100 people....and on this small sample they have come to the conclusion that Scotland would break away.
I have only used that analogy because it is fairly current and explains the point.

It is pointless telling us how many people have tested positive for the virus if
A) we do not know how many total tests were done
B) how many were repeat tests(that is, done on the same person)
C) how many people are ill
D) how many people from the sample required hospital treatment.

25% of those infected have acquired the infection while in hospital for some other reason.

We should also be told how many people actually died from the virus....not this ‘died within 28 days of a positive test.
If they died as a result of a road accident or some other unrelated medical event, then these should be weeded out of the stats.

As someone once said ‘There are lies, Damn lies, and statistics’
They all boil down to the same thing.
We are being treated like retarded 12 year olds, not capable of buttering our own bread.

The thought of lockdown with no end in sight is enough to tip people over the edge.
Lockdown did not work the first time....and not because it was not observed, because it was.
It won’t work this time either...or if it is done a third time.
All it does is kick the can down the road to be dealt with later.
All this in the hope that a vaccine will sort it....I think that is a vain hope too.