Quote Originally Posted by oldcolner View Post
They want indicators fast not have to wait days or weeks later before you can steer the ship.
Come on OC, this is desperate stuff, this is a long running crisis, it's been ongoing now for at least eight months, and it's going to be with us for at least another eight months or more likely longer, so a couple of days more to get the true picture is neither here nor there. To steer the ship we do not need or want fast indicators, we need accurate indicators, and if that means waiting 3/4 days then that is what we should do.

It already appears that Boris has been bounced into Lockdown 2 on the back of some very dodgy stats, the veracity of which are coming under increasing scrutiny, using the 'deaths by date reported' figure to measure our progress is equally dodgy, when the true number of deaths is known just 2/3 days later. But I shouldn't be surprised, this entire enterprise seems to be run on the back of dodgy stats, which is probably why it's such a fecking shambles.