And the deaths graph stubbornly refuses to nudge upwards even a little bit. I notice the BBC decided not to include it in their daily figures report at all yesterday and eventually removed a whole paragraph from their initial report so as to make it less clear that deaths are not rising even as infections do.
According to the Internet Wayback Machine, at around 5pm the report said this:
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The number of coronavirus cases has increased by 238,350 or 58.9% in the past seven days, compared with the previous week, while the number of daily deaths reported has decreased by 2.7% over the same period.
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Yet by around half past 7 that line had gone entirely.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https:...ws/uk-59758757
I really hate sounding like a conspiracy nut so let me be as charitable as I possibly can be and suggest that the BBC no longer considers itself to be an impartial news-gathering service when it comes to covid, and is instead committed to full integration with the government’s messaging strategy. It is more interested in helping secure desired behaviours from the population than simply doing what it is chartered to do.
Folks may or may not think that’s a good thing … discuss …