Dishonesty in COVID Reporting

A reader sent me this meme, which is typical of the twisting the truth we see so often.  The implication here is that removing the restrictions caused the infection rates to decrease, which is simply untrue.  From NPR:

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — After 548 days with restrictions to limit the spread of COVID-19, Denmark’s high vaccination rate has enabled the Scandinavian country to become one of the first European Union nations to lift all domestic restrictions.

More than 80% of people above the age of 12 have had the two shots.

“I wouldn’t say it is too early. We have opened the door but we have also said that we can close it if needed,” Soeren Riis Paludan, a professor of virology with the Aarhus University in Denmark’s second largest city, told The Associated Press.

As of midnight, the Danish government no longer considers COVID-19 “a socially critical disease.” Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said Aug. 27 that “the epidemic is under control” but warned: “we are not out of the epidemic” and the government will act as needed if necessary.

The vaccination rate is:

Inversely proportional to the number of per capita crackpots in the country, and

Directly proportional to the degree to which the country’s citizens honestly care about one another.