Are Austin Officials Playing Questionable Number Games to Keep the City Shut Down?
https://texasscorecard.com/local/are-aus...k9BmghGLrY38yUc
Local officials are using questionable information—and changing their own rules—to keep the city shut down, prohibiting countless Austinites from making a living.
By Jacob Asmussen
|August 27, 2020

As countless Austinites struggle to afford food and rent because of government shutdowns, are local officials actually using good data to justify crippling citizens’ livelihoods?

This week, Austin-Travis County Interim Health Authority Dr. Mark Escott downgraded the city to Stage 3 on their self-created “risk-based guidelines” chart, saying at a press conference last week that coronavirus hospitalizations are declining and overall case numbers are falling.

“Our hospitals continue to be in a better situation. The hospitalization numbers continue to decline,” Escott said.

Furthermore, Dr. Escott said much of the recent “spike” of new cases was, in reality, a “reporting error,” a backlogged pile of state laboratory data they just received earlier this month that contained cases dating back as far as April. Dr. Escott said he and his staff checked through those cases and found a majority of them were duplicate records that they had already investigated. Escott’s staff also found that 40-50 percent were no longer active cases.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

The PtB keep changing the metrics and the sheeple all cower and murmur: "it surely must be very bad out there..... please protect us....."

Quote: austingirl wrote in post #6

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The PTB are doubling down even as the fraud is unraveling with the story today that only 9000 people with resumed or confirmed covid died without comorbidities, and the 90% false positive tests. King Abbott refuses to follow the new reduced testing CDC guidelines. King Pritzker of Illinois has ordered his subjects eating at restaurants to put their mask on when they speak to their server.

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