the federal government will no longer require hospitals to report the daily number of covid deaths as of February 2nd https://twitter.com/DataDrivenMD/status/1482049687519580166
oh also the census bureau is cutting off the most-watched employment, wage, and labor participation data https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-14/tracking-pay-jobs-is-about-to-get-harder-on-u-s-census-changes?srnd=premium
"democracy dies in darkness" indeed
i keep saying joe biden's job is to turn out the lights and i am still surprised by the magnitude and rapidity with which the administration is stripping the copper from the walls
@kate so who’s actually covering up mass deaths, right wingers
@kate referring to the right wing conspiracy theory that china is lying about its numbers to cover up deaths from the covid pandemic. in other words what the federal government is doing here
@zorotl oh right. lol
@kate "Additional changes concern incomes, particularly at the top level, to protect respondent confidentiality" lol
@dankwraith@monads.online @kate@shrike.club my god that's fucking bleak lmao
@LaComtesseRouge @kate the metrics are showing how the rich are looting the economy better shut that down
@kate literally pulling a Desantis but it's fine because it's Biden
US Pol - Snark
*~*haaarm reduction*~*
He was shit from the day he was born. His career should've ended for good in 1988 when he was caught plagiarizing on the campaign trail. But of course, no.
"covid is over, don't worry about omicron"
> 1+ million cases a day
"omicron is mild, look how few people there are in the hospital"
> hospitalizations break records
"they're mild hospitalizations, look at the low death counts"
> deaths begin to climb at the same rate as previous spikes
"no more death data for you piggies"