To: Letters Editor/Opinion Editor All About Energy 10 May 2020
Covid Confusion - Fudged Figures and Muddled Models We are drowning in a sea of suspect statistics, many being used selectively by powerhungry politicians. Especially Covid statistics. Suppose an obese alcoholic 80-year-old with hips replaced, diabetes, heart bypass, inflammation and high blood pressure gets the flu, then pneumonia, tests positive to Covid and dies. What is recorded as the cause of death? It depends on who wants the figures and why. Too often, politics and economics determine the outcome. Does the hospital or physician get paid more for Covid patients? They will find more. Are politicians pushing their Orwellian tracking devices or industrialists pushing universal compulsory vaccinations? Do politicians who control the health industry want a declining trend to prove their competence, or a rising trend to get more funds or to embarrass other politicians? At least some medico’s in Queensland have been instructed to put the primary cause of death as COVID-19 and then list contributory causes (diabetes, heart disease etc) as second, third etc.) And in places in the US, hospitals get a bonus payment for each Covid diagnosis and a bigger one for patients on ventilators. Guess where the trends are rising? Should we ignore the increase in family violence, suicides and the surge in consumption of alcohol and junk food in locked-down homes? And what about the excess deaths caused when hospitals were emptied and non-essential surgery cancelled to prepare for a Covid surge that never came. That surge was predicted by - - - - computer models. Now we find that some imported Covid test kits are suspect, making the statistics even more suspect. 1