Public Health Scotland Stops Releasing Covid Data to Protect The Public From Reaching Bad Conclusions

Public Health Scotland is upset that critics are using its data to oppose Covid mandates and policies.

One official is quoted as saying that "[t]he case rates, hospitalization rates, the death rates are very simple statistics" and critics are misreading the data "Inappropriately and sometimes willfully." The solution? PHS will reportedly stop sharing the data with the public.

According to papers like The Herald, the PHS will now withhold data after critics noted that, for the first time, the case rate among vaccinated individuals had overtaken the unvaccinated for Covid.

Citizens should be allowed access to this data - as should experts who may have opposing views of their import.

Instead, the impulse of these officials is to bar access to information to protect the public from itself.

The problem is that citizens are reaching the wrong conclusions or reading the wrong sources and must be protected from their own proclivities or ignorance.

Public health policy is subject to democratic change and citizens should have access to data to make informed decisions.

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/02/20/public-health-scotland-stops-releasing-covid-data-to-protect-the-public-from-reaching-bad-conclusions/