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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Yes, lies by omission. Aimed squarely at those who already "know" the information presented on these charts to be true. Gives them that satisfaction of "haha - I knew it, I was right all along". These same folks, of course, immediately reject any information contrary to what they "knew" was "right all along".

It's frustrating to watch. For those of us who are sometimes tasked with tracking, charting, and understanding trends (in my case so we could at least have some hope of predicting component life cycles), the haphazard way in which this "data" is collected and presented, the all too many omissions of important variables, renders all of this "data" useless. Someone clearly has an agenda. Someone clearly knows their audience...

We both work in aerospace, an industry that lives and dies on data. So I agree it’s infuriating. I wanted to see data at the KS level on new hospitalizations per day, couldn’t find it. Everything is cumulative because of corse that gives a bar chart showing everything going up (scary!), and the data at the KDHE level isn’t even downloadable to Excel, pdf and ppt only. Funny how there’s even an option to download a csv formatted file but it’s greyed out. So why would the public health authorities not want you to download and review the data yourself? Ultimately I found the numbers showing cumulative hospitalizations per day and simply calculated new hospitalizations per day and guess what? The trend line is downward sloping. Funny how they don’t show that chart. Nope, they’re all scary looking upwards sloping charts to justify the governor’s attempt to keep the state shutdown and make masks mandatory.