Commentary
As the pandemic rolls into its fourth year, the Biden administration renewed the COVID-19 emergency to keep the cash flowing. But the statistics justifying a public health emergency and vaccine mandates make very little sense.
In 1954, author Darrell Huff published the book “How to Lie with Statistics” about how statistics are misused, and errors in their interpretation can lead to wrong conclusions. Many of the articles and even official reports about COVID-19 and the vaccines are plagued by the “errors” Huff described in his book. One of the first ways to lie with data is by not defining the time period. We are told that COVID-19 is dangerous because it has killed 1.1 million Americans. But this is over a period of more than three years. We are also told that deaths continue to climb, but this number is cumulative, so it never trends down….