Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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jason1637 said:

UK changing how we count Covid-19 deaths, deviating from all European countries

- asking for family consent (shouldn't be necessary for basic data like numbers)
- not counting deaths which occur outside of hospitals
- not doing Covid 19 tests in post-mortems

Question - why? https://t.co/KJNGxVuyt7

— Dave Haslam (@Mr_Dave_Haslam) March 26, 2020

"Why?"

We mustn't cause a panic!
Think of the stock markets!

The fact that their useing like 3-4 tricks to avoid giveing accurate numbers is nuts.
You know whats likely to cause panic? people finding out that your goverment is lying too you about how dangerous this is!

Look numbers are dropping!
(that guy died 10 feet off the hospital, he doesnt count)
(that guy died at night, we only count those before xx:xx)
(that guy died.... due to cornovirus, but we didnt have family concent to say he died)
(that guy died.... before we even got test results back! (you want to know the test results? nah dont worry about it))

^ this is insane.