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FERRIS – We rely on our government agencies to give us accurate information.

Or do we? Should we?

That has come into question more and more lately with the reporting of COVID-19 numbers.

For example, it was recently revealed the Center for Disease Control – that’s right, the agency that fights diseases and keeps us safe – has been reporting COVID-19 numbers... inaccurately

In an article by The Atlantic the headline was, “How could the CDC make that mistake?”

Aren’t we all scratching our heads at that question?

Last month my friend’s son [who has asked for his name not to be revealed] tested positive for COVID-19. 

It went down like this; his eight-month-old daughter was sick. They took her to the doctor.  

She was reported negative for COVID-19, then they lost her medical records, then a few days later they called and said she had tested positive not negative for COVID-19.

So, my friend’s son had to go in for a COVID-19 test on request of his employer and get tested along with another test for his daughter and his wife. The daughter tested positive again for COVID-19, his wife did not test positive, and my friend’s son tested positive.  

That is two positive cases.

However, the son had to test three times positive before he finally tested negative, and the daughter tested twice positive before she tested negative.

A person with commonsense would say two positive cases.

The reporting agency said it was five positive cases: three times for him and twice for the daughter.

Isn’t that number manipulation?  

It has also been revealed by the CDC that the agency is putting together two dissimilar kinds of coronavirus tests and changing several key measurements that paint a false notion of the COVID-19 pandemic overall.

This incorrect information being used by various states to determine reopening is just one more way the economy is being negatively affected due to inaccurate pandemic number reporting.

It was also reported recently the CDC said only six percent of COVID-19 deaths were due to the pandemic alone. In 94-percent of all other cases there were underlying conditions.

Between the underlying conditions and the inflated number of positive cases, we might find that like what many people these days have been saying “this is another flu.” 

True, a flu with no vaccine.

However, we have never shut the country and the economy down for the flu.

“Let’s be safe and smart instead of living in a place of fear,” said Andrea Pylant, an Ellis County resident. “Do your homework, and look at the numbers behind what the government agencies have been saying.”