“But Peter Graves, spokesperson for the Defense Health Agency’s Armed Forces Surveillance Division, told PolitiFact by email that "in response to concerns mentioned in news reports" the division reviewed data in the DMED "and found that the data was incorrect for the years 2016-2020."
In the next paragraph: "The 2021 numbers, however, wer…
“But Peter Graves, spokesperson for the Defense Health Agency’s Armed Forces Surveillance Division, told PolitiFact by email that "in response to concerns mentioned in news reports" the division reviewed data in the DMED "and found that the data was incorrect for the years 2016-2020."
In the next paragraph: "The 2021 numbers, however, were up-to-date, giving the "appearance of significant increased occurrence of all medical diagnoses in 2021 because of the underreported data for 2016-2020," Graves said."
I'm an amateur at this stuff. But the obvious question - what changed in 2021, that was different from the preceding 5 years? Asked another way, why was the data incorrect for 5 years, and then suddenly, for no apparent reason, it was correct for one year? What changed?
And, what changed that somehow went unnoticed? Went unnoticed until someone pointed out an anomaly is the data?
If this were a one-of-a-kind anomaly, that's one thing. But it's not. It's one more in a string of anomalies.
Take your choice: a. They're inept. b. They're corrupt. c. They're lying. d. All of the above.
“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”
Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs
Thank goodness for fearless individuals like Dr. Malone, hopefully enough are waking up so we can all stop pretending.
I hear you. I tend to summarize this crap they feed us by...their ineptitude is either intentional, or incompetence. Either deserve firing at the least.
A question: Where is the evidence of under reporting? Show it. I am so tired of the "We say A, so it is a fact. Question A and you are a racist, Russian loving, homophobe."
That is a great point. The imaginary under reporting error across so many years sounds pretty much like it would have to be a “systemic” error (poor data definition, data collection, data analysis algorithms, etc) that repeated. Yeah — so what happened that this year the system error ceased to be?? Because if it didn’t cease to be, then we would expect this year is greatly under reported too. And, they have some explaining to do for switching things up in the middle of a pandemic without publishing their new methods and standards to the field ahead of time and taking out a giant billboard saying —
E R R A T U M! WE HAVE SCREWED UP FOR YEARS! Maybe time to hear from the old guard data analysts about their “screw up” in court? Is this a case that can go to court? Who has standing to bring an action here?
“But Peter Graves, spokesperson for the Defense Health Agency’s Armed Forces Surveillance Division, told PolitiFact by email that "in response to concerns mentioned in news reports" the division reviewed data in the DMED "and found that the data was incorrect for the years 2016-2020."
In the next paragraph: "The 2021 numbers, however, were up-to-date, giving the "appearance of significant increased occurrence of all medical diagnoses in 2021 because of the underreported data for 2016-2020," Graves said."
I'm an amateur at this stuff. But the obvious question - what changed in 2021, that was different from the preceding 5 years? Asked another way, why was the data incorrect for 5 years, and then suddenly, for no apparent reason, it was correct for one year? What changed?
And, what changed that somehow went unnoticed? Went unnoticed until someone pointed out an anomaly is the data?
If this were a one-of-a-kind anomaly, that's one thing. But it's not. It's one more in a string of anomalies.
Take your choice: a. They're inept. b. They're corrupt. c. They're lying. d. All of the above.
So hard to choose one...
“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”
Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs
Thank goodness for fearless individuals like Dr. Malone, hopefully enough are waking up so we can all stop pretending.
hope this isn't greedy, but i'll take two of letter c. lying and a letter d. all of the above. thank you.
I hear you. I tend to summarize this crap they feed us by...their ineptitude is either intentional, or incompetence. Either deserve firing at the least.
d
A question: Where is the evidence of under reporting? Show it. I am so tired of the "We say A, so it is a fact. Question A and you are a racist, Russian loving, homophobe."
That is a great point. The imaginary under reporting error across so many years sounds pretty much like it would have to be a “systemic” error (poor data definition, data collection, data analysis algorithms, etc) that repeated. Yeah — so what happened that this year the system error ceased to be?? Because if it didn’t cease to be, then we would expect this year is greatly under reported too. And, they have some explaining to do for switching things up in the middle of a pandemic without publishing their new methods and standards to the field ahead of time and taking out a giant billboard saying —
E R R A T U M! WE HAVE SCREWED UP FOR YEARS! Maybe time to hear from the old guard data analysts about their “screw up” in court? Is this a case that can go to court? Who has standing to bring an action here?
My final answer is "d."
The narrative of the propaganda.