There may be a ‘rat’ in the reporting of COVID-19 cases | Sky News Australia

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Sky News host Chris Smith says clear inaccuracy and “porkies” on the number of active COVID-19 cases in Australia may be the reason why the states and territories are “too scared to open their borders”.

Mr Smith said he could “smell a bit of a rat in the large number of active cases” which are announced each day in New South Wales. He pointed to the discrepancy in the active cases published each night, and how the numbers are over-inflated as daily increases have been significantly low in recent weeks.

NSW Health have said there are 365 active cases, but only 69 people were infected in the past four weeks and according to the health department 75 per cent of infected people recover in four weeks. “The data is wrong, it’s not based on testing, it’s a big fat guess; we are indirectly being scared of the virus beyond what we should,” Mr Smith said. Image: AP

 

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Coronavirus is over. It was a total scam. Nowhere near as dangerous as we were first told. And now DictatorDan is allowing mass gatherings of leftist protesters in spite of what the law says.

It’s a very clever virus. Can kill people going to work but not those going to protests.

Oh really , would you like me to break out my numbers from 3 months ago ? cases do not matter , the death rate is 10% of the average flu season ... we get it , the jig is up. Biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the people of the world . The Virus is real , the hysteria is horseshit

What evidence ?

So instead of a general slur about inaccuracy name those lying about it. It sounds far-fetched to me, but perhaps you can be both factual and specific?

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