Not at all. Data is a snapshot, it is not the “truth”. It is a simplification of what is actually happening so we can understand connections easier.
I wouldn’t be arguing a math problem, I would be arguing an idea, which is that health departments are manipulating numbers to count flu as covid. Those flu numbers themselves are wrong, there is no way of knowing how many people actually caught the flu.
Or are you even wrong if you say 38,000,000 vs 38,347,217? How about 2.10673 vs 2.11 vs 2? It depends on what is actually happening, and like I mentioned, numbers are just a simplification of the truth.
Good approach. I get that if you can’t find the source of the data you wouldn’t want to use it, I wouldn’t either without knowing whrere it came from. I mean that’s exactly what the MSM does when they say “sources familiar with the matter” and “anonymous sources”.
There’s technically right and conceptually right, and this is the game Trump plays.
Say these numbers are technically wrong, good go and prove him wrong that it was actually 500,000 flu cases instead of 2000. Huge number difference. But the concept behind the argument stays the same. The drop in flu cases from any other year is astronomical and something is going on.
The media does this the opposite way, where small ‘errors’ completely changes the argument.
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