Top State Official Caught Using Faked Data to Push Mask Mandate
A top Kansas official is facing criticism after he was caught using a “doctored” chart to justify face mask mandates.
Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Lee Norman presented a coronavirus case chart to the media last week to contrast Kansas counties abiding by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s mask mandate and those that have not, The Sentinel reported.
Norman claimed that counties abiding by the mandate are “winning the battle,” suggesting that counties that have not followed the mandate are losing.
“All of the improvement in the case development comes from those counties wearing masks,” Norman said, The Sentinel reported.
However, Norman’s claim only appeared true because he manipulated his chart to create the illusion that counties following the mask mandate are successfully warding off coronavirus.
From the Washington Examiner:
Norman used an axis with a range of 15 to 25 to describe the number of new cases in masked counties and used a range of 4 to 14 to describe the number of new cases in counties without a mask mandate, making it appear as though counties without a mask mandate had more cases. When the two sets of data are placed on a chart with the same axis, counties without a mask mandate have fewer new cases per day than counties with a mask mandate.
As of last week, the vast majority of Kansas counties — 90 of the state’s 105 — rejected the governor’s face covering mandate because so few people in the state have contracted the virus.
Overall, fewer than 1% of Kansans have tested positive for COVID-19.
Kansas Republicans are now speaking out about the lack of transparency from the governor’s administration.
“Governor Kelly and her administration have failed Kansans time and again, but manipulating data to intentionally deceive the entire state is a new low,” Kansas House Majority Leader Dan Hawkins, a Republican, said, The Sentinel reported.
“Tens-of-thousands of Kansans have lost their jobs and businesses as a direct result of Governor Kelly’s politics-first response to the COVID pandemic, and these individuals struggling to make ends meet deserve to know the truth. It is reprehensible for a public servant like Dr. Norman that we trusted to protect our health and safety in a nonpartisan way to intentionally spread misinformation,” he continued. “The Kelly administration has lost all credibility.”
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Andy Rowlands
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Disgraceful. This virus data manipulation is getting as bad as for ‘climate change’.
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JaKo
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Hi Andy and All, Please have a look at this: IHME (The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) The very first screen shows this ‘motto’: “RACISM IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE.” Do not get too excited over that one though, it gets much better — COVID-19 Projections There you look-up (hover over) the Dec 1 ‘Projection Scenario’ — magical! I went further to see this FAQ on masks: Excerpt: “How effective are masks? Our analysis indicates that masks, whether cloth or medical grade, can reduce infections for mask-wearers by at least one-third. To learn more, visit our estimation update published on June 25, 2020, specifically the heading ‘Why masks? How effective are masks?’“ Further down their ‘mask idea’ gets manifested: “IHME’s latest COVID-19 forecasts indicate that the US will reach nearly 300,000 deaths by December 1, 2020. If mask wearing in public increases to 95%, more than 66,000 lives could be saved…” For those relentless ‘fact fans’ — a truly amazing reading is in their June 25, 2020 Update Again, a central insight is as follows: Why masks? How effective are masks? Building on recently published meta-analyses and incorporating 41 papers, IHME researchers performed a meta-analysis of peer-reviewed scientific studies and medRxiv pre-prints in an assessment of mask effectiveness for preventing respiratory viral infections. The studies were extracted from a medRxiv publication by Liang, M., Gao, L., Cheng, C., Zhou, Q., Uy, J.P., Heiner, K., & Sun, C. (May 5, 2020) titled ‘Efficacy of face mask in preventing respiratory virus transmission: a systematic review and metaanalysis.'” Beside noting that they’re using the “Imperial Model” as comparison for their slimmed down ones I looked up an EU country with one of the least infections and death associated with COVID-19 — Czech Republic — the prediction for not wearing masks shows “very IN-credible” 14.7 multiple of total deaths (6,650 / 453) over wearing them! I can hardly contain my joy!!! Enjoy it all! JaKo
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JaKo
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Sorry for the lack of paragraphs formatting — my HTML checker (not dog) ate them…
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Chris
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They should press criminal charges against him and launch an investigation into the govenor to see if she knew about the altered data before he presented it.
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Chris
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Finally the cdc is admitting that falsely reporting the covid 19 deaths is being incentivized.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/08/02/cdc-director-admits-hospitals-medical-folks-have-perverse-incentive-to-falsely-count-covid-deaths-954633?utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get+Response&utm_term=EMAIL&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_campaign=bizpac
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