Wed Jun 7, 2023 – 12:30 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — What is the best way for governments to cover up the evidence that they have failed in their policies on COVID-19? Either make the evidence disappear or keep insisting that everything went well until the attention of the population eventually shifts elsewhere.
That appears to be the tactic of Australian state and federal governments. In New South Wales (NSW) the most populous state, data is being made unavailable, probably to discourage scrutiny.
When Sydney-based data analyst Xin Yin Ooi was analyzing statistical breakdowns provided in NSW Health’s weekly surveillance report she noticed a strange figure in one table. She requested the underlying numbers to check the work for herself and was told it had been erased. As Ooi pointed out, the state’s premier, health minister, and chief health officer repeatedly insisted that two injections were not enough to deal with COVID’s omicron variant because “the data” showed this.
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So why was the data unavailable? Ooi put in a freedom of information request to NSW Health but was denied. She appealed to the NSW Civil
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