Thread by @SteveAHorn

Imagine working on a science agency and being like: “Yeah, I think we should collect less data + present it deceptively.” The banality of evil on full display, killing people quietly by concealing numbers and manipulating data. Seriously insidious stuff. Can’t sugarcoat it.

https://twitter.com/luckytran/status/1656876785907163136

Okay, so why is this maybe worse then banally evil? Because it’s willfully misleading to assess risk. Without any explanation I’ve seen, CDC switched to completely arbitrary metric around percentage of deaths compared to everything else one could possibly die of is useless.

It’d be like living next to a toxic wasteland like Chernobyl or something (COVID still a top killer + compounds other top things that kill) and saying “Yeah, but as a trial percentage of what you can die of, it’s really only small. There’s 1,000 ways to die.”

And just to be super clear, and correct me if I’m misreading this newly minted greenwashed map, but to be in the red on the map the state equivalent of 26.7 million Americans would have to be dying of COVID? That’s clearly never been the case since 2020 + disease has been

leading cause of death and stunningly successful at disabling people and putting something in their body now documented in countless peer reviewed studies to be linked to long term very serious public health consequences that will kill people + destroy life quality.

By this new greenwash metric, and again correct me if I’ve misunderstood it, no US illness would get the map much beyond a pure green. And life expectancy continues to drop in the US due to COVID + other many other diseases/reasons.

In other words, the map is the same as “the water is safe in Dimock and Flint, the petrochemical refinery is pristine and nothing to worry about in living across the street from it, nothing to worry about for gun violence since it’s overall just a small % of US total deaths,” etc

It’s just a complete and shameless out of any appropriate social or scientific context manipulation of data, in other words, propaganda that will get people hurt and killed. And it’s pulled out of an age-old playbook of deceit. That’s why I used harsh words above, in sum.