But before I begin, in respect for Jacob Rees-Mogg I will be leaving two spaces after all puctuation from now on. Look it up in the history books.

I’ve been fooled and so have you. Fooling people is really easy to do if you keep repeating things over an over again. A few visuals thrown in help a little bit more, but what you really need to keep a falsehood going is going after the people pointing out the the mis-truths.

The best thing to do is look at a graph of CV-19 deaths in the UK:

This looks great. Active cases of CV-19 have plateaued. Well done everyone for following the Government’s advice, cases have almost peaked. But a closer look at the Y-axis points out that the chart is using a logarithmic scale. And there are many reasons for doing this. For a start it helps with large numbers that would send data points off the page in no time at all.

Looking at the same data in a linear scale gives another view of what’s going on:

This doesn’t look great at all. There was talk about reaching a peak, but cases would have to fall dramatically for that to happen and given the trend it would take a miracle. I prefer the flattening curve chart. Pointing this out and looking at it makes me feel like the bad guy.

I don’t want to be writing any of this. This kind of thing wasn’t in my plan when I started – with a basic idea and no plan. But that doesn’t matter, because it’s just a stupid bloody blog to give myself something to do. Nobody dies if I write a succession of bladly written blogs. But somethings do take a lot of planning and when most of your planning is spent covering up your mistakes, everyone should take an interest.

The reason why people are not pointing a more accurate truth is that they may not be allowed to. Or, they don’t want to admit a mistake because they think any alternative view is worse. Or they think they may benefit from the situation. Or they fear retribution. And\or a combination of everthing I’ve pointed out.

The country will continue with the current lockdown measures indefinitely, whilst the curve continues to flatten, despite the number of cases doubling every three or four days.