if you don't like the data, stop reporting it? ONS edition
if you don't like the data, stop reporting it? ONS edition there has been a worrying trend of data series being eliminated by health agencies when they trend against covid vaccines. it's time we demanded to know why. el gato malo i can haz answers? the ostensible purpose of public agencies is to serve the public. but how is the public served by selective data use and outright data suppression? it’s enough to make one wonder about precisely for whom these purported public servants work. the CDC took its system offline for months in the middle of what remains a “declared emergency” to do an “update.” i struggle to see the sound or needful basis for so doing. the ONS in the UK has been playing many of the same games and engaging in quite a lot of “hide the ball” besides. that said, they are still the only agency i know of that was reporting covid and all cause deaths by detailed vaccine status that allowed us to see not just the bayesian rig job of only counting “full vaccinated +
