Lilley provides a perfect example on how they are utilizing stats to continue with their fear mongering.
"Take the issue of hospitalizations and ICU admissions, something critical for understanding how Ontario’s system is handling COVID-19."
"To show the growth of hospitalizations, the Science Table compared Dec. 26, 2020 to March 28, 2021 and noted a 21% growth in hospitalizations and 28% growth in ICU admissions. The date they picked was a low point for hospital admissions with just 755 COVID patients on Dec. 26 compared to 917 on March 28."
"Just the day before, on Dec. 25 there were 998 people in hospital. If you want to show a sharp rise then you pick the lowest point as your starting point. If the Science Table had used the seven-day rolling average there would be no big jump in hospitalizations to report."
"The modelling from Thursday only divides people into two categories, those over 60 and those under 60. That presentation showed that while only 30% of ICU admissions from Dec. 14-20, 2020 were under the age of 60, for the week of March 15-21, 2021 that age group accounted for 46% of admissions.""So, are we seeing a spike in people in their 20s filling up ICUs? Despite plenty of reporting that makes it sound that way, it isn’t the case."
"The rise in people under 60 was predominantly those aged 50-59, they went from 24 admissions to 41 admissions. It’s concerning to see this moving younger but describing people 50-59 as if they are in their 20s is simply not being honest."
"Shutting down whole sectors of the economy that have nothing to do with the spread, the cases, the hospitalizations or the deaths from COVID-19 makes zero sense."
https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...-this-pandemic