CV and mad panic behaviour

[LP]

You have to be very careful trusting what you read in mainstream media.

I read today the case numbers and deaths, about 35K cases and 21 deaths, News Ltd had stated for Victoria. Then I go to The Rage, it it states 35K cases for NSW and 21 deaths. Something seems wrong, both sites had screen grabs of Tweets to support the report, it is like the name of the state was changed and the figures remained the same!

Then I go to the official sites, the 35K cases and 21 deaths is NSW, and 40K cases and 13 deaths in Vic as of 10am today, it may change of course.

The media seems to be getting it's figures from a 3rd party aggregator site, and that site seems to have munged the figures. It is lazy reporting, but I sometimes wonder if it is deliberate use of a questionable source for sensationalism! But that is hard to imagine as the numbers are universally bad, so making bad even more bad is pretty pointless!

btw., This will get fixed up on both sites during the day, the numbers will change, but for many many readers the damage is already done!