So the truths about the response to the Covid “Pandemic” are slowly coming to light.

This report is damning: https://www.in.gov/attorneygeneral/files/Covid-Report_efile.pdf

The lies, the bad data, the overreported deaths and cases. The failure of the CDC (on both a National and a State level), as well has County Boards of Health to make sure that what was being reported was accurate and true, in order that  the responses could be evaluated using correct data……

It appears that most of the panic was ….well, overdone. Because the rates of death were (in Indiana, at least) overreported by about 12%. (quite possibly by in excess of 30%) Lots of cases of “Died WITH Covid” rather than “Died OF Covid….

The Positivity Rates were as anyone that understood statistics and sampling knew, AY overdone. Like 3-5 times more than reality due to the methodology of reporting. IN other words, the number of people testing positive was reported to be 3 to 5  times (possibly as much as 10 times) higher than reality.

Lots of folks knew this, and yet it was the current fashion to overreport, so they did, And they shouted down those of us who questioned the numbers. They told us to “Listen to the Public Health “Experts” even though they weren’t experts and had very little background in Public Health, but were, rather government lifers who did their work in a drone-like fashion and again, followed the trends rather than actually doing useful work keeping the public safe.

Christ, if an engineer like myself could clearly see the failures in their statistics and their modeling, as well as their methods of gather data, then it has to be really really poor methodology. Yet no pone listened to us, because it wasn’t the way of the trendy states nor the current fashion. Like Glowbal Warming, it matters only in how bad you say it is and is becoming, rather than the reality of how bad it really is. .

Yes, it is easy to go back and look at how things were handled after the “Crisis”  is over and armchair quarterback their decisions. But the thing is, these folks should have known, if they were, indeed, the “experts” that they are held out to be, that their data was false and inflated. Either they knew, and decided to go with the flow, or they are incompetent in their position and should be replaced. They had weeks and weeks to learn how badly they bungled things and to change direction….but they didn’t.

Our public health folks gave bad data to our legislators….who had to know the data was bad, and decisions affecting millions of our state’s citizens.