When you fire the statistics collection people for true-but-bad news, you guarantee that you fly blind going forward, as people wont tell you bad news anymore.

We simply can’t trust government stats after this.

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    3 days ago

    Don’t you know how much faster Trump could have solved the pandemic?

    I’m sure you’re joking, but you are aware that Trump was still president for the entire first year of the pandemic, right?

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      I mean, he did indeed try to just stop testing IIRC. Luckily, at the time he got pushback. The pushback is somewhere between less apparent to nonexistent right now