Plenty of Covid-19 data if you care to look for it
‘HARD Up and Fed Up’ (Feedback, May 8) says it’s ‘high time Kirklees Council gave true figures to taxpayers’ on Covid incidence across the borough, but supposes that would be ‘too much like hard work for the council.’
As I’ve pointed out twice before in Feedback, in response to similar allegations, in fact these data are published every Friday, for areas smaller than wards. If Hard Up has an email account/s, he can have these sent straight to their inbox.
They are available via the council website and, quite often, appear in print in the Examiner itself.
Hard Up can readily have the information if s/he wants it, but prefers to make an entirely false political point.
IT WAS with an enormous sense of deja vu that I read the latest letter from Hard Up and Fed Up (May 8).
His complaint about Kirklees Council not providing more detailed information about Covid19 cases was something he/she wrote to the Examiner about part way through 2020. Hard Up and Fed Up has clearly forgotten that a fellow correspondent subsequently pointed out that there is a wealth of virus-related information published by the council online, including a breakdown of Covid-19 cases by council ward, which is updated on a very regular basis.
Do come along Hard Up and Fed Up, try and keep up old boy/girl.
I WAS a little puzzled to see “Hard Up and Fed Up” berating Kirklees Council about publishing the numbers of Covid infections (May 8).
All the Covid data is of course available via the Government website coronavirus.data.gov.uk, where you can view a colour-coded interactive map or input a postcode.
The data is updated daily around 4.30pm and (I suspect) has nothing at all to do with Kirklees.
The interactive map can provide you with information on any area you like, whether it’s Dewsbury, Dumbarton, Dolgellau or Donagh.
Admittedly you can get lost in the statistics, but it’s a useful tool to see which localised areas are on the rise.
Trouble in Fantasia
MR. Charlesworth (Feedback May 8) wishes to apologise to all readers of Feedback for being “suckered” into an exchange of letters about a “number” with me.
As a committed reader of Feedback, should I accept his apology? The subject was not about a number, it was about his integrity – his attempts to justify his fairy tale figures re Brexit UK trade, and his inability to accept he did not “get his facts right.” Therefore his latest letter quoting “Ignoratio Elenchi” is a fallacy. His logic, mathematics, and attempts of satire, in letters to the Examiner have failed miserably, and been questioned by other columnists.
The more he childlike tries to exonerate his self, questions his inability to accept that “fact” means truth and reality, this denigrates his own standing.
Life in Fantasia seems to have become uncomfortable, will Alice be upset?