Yesterday afternoon in my blog I wrote complaining that the slides showing the Governments data was being, for want of a better word, manipulated to skew the way things looked – note the compressed vertical scale below:
I then added my own rough attempt at showing a better scale which, I felt, showed a more realistic view:
At last nights briefing the same slide had had it’s vertical scale altered which reflect the ideas I had expressed and showing a continuing climb upwards of deaths from Covid-19:
But at the same press conference the Scientists were trying to convince me / us that the number of cases were reducing! Now I’m not the brightest of blokes but even I can deduce from a climbing slope on a graph that this isn’t reducing.
Why aren’t the journo’s asking the same questions?
It looks like I was on the money though 🙂
Please refer to yesterdays blog for more detail. The COBR graphs were pinched off the BBC iPlayer recordings from 6th and 8th April 2020