Leaving aside the vax/anti-vax issues, I worry that the stats on infection numbers/deaths etc., are not showing the real story. My reasoning is this: until the past couple of weeks, very few of our friends, neighbours and acquaintances contracted the virus. Within those last few weeks, nearly 20 people we know personally have caught the thing. This is not one of those “well, a friend of my cousin’s wife’s mate said her auntie caught it”. These are real, confirmed cases. It could, of course, be a statistical one-off for our area.
The stats, however, tell us that infection rates, hospitalisations etc. are plunging. Well, not round here they ain’t. Anyone else noticed anything like this?
And before I get accused of being a conspiracy theorist/doom-monger/anti-Boris fanatic, I am not accusing anyone of falsifying data in this instance. I am merely wondering whether the criteria for the compilation of data are appropriate.