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Are you new to American politics? The demand to cook the books undoubtedly came from the top, whoever investigates can also be fired, and the public are out demanding that reopening happen even if it kills people.

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Fortunately, most of the public are not making that demand. It's well worth keeping in mind that those people are vastly outnumbered: https://xkcd.com/2305/

If you dig into the science of polling, what you discover is that the way people answer questions is rather confounding, so management of the largest polls typically do not like to use the modern science of polling.

See David Moore's book The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind the Polls.

Big fan of majoritarian rule, will of the people, consent of the governed.

How do we realize that ideal?

Legalizing psychedelics.

In most cases we can't even figure out where the top is though like all the doctors that are being encouraged to mark deaths unrelated to covid-19 as related simply because of the time that it happened in.I heard one doctor say oh yeah that patient did die of the virus because we couldn't get supplies here for their condition even though it was completely unrelated they still are calling tons of deaths cause covid-19

"I heard one doctor say"?

like in person? or on TV?

and from this you draw the conclusion that "tons" of deaths are misreported?

Regardless of what happened to this woman, if the public wants the reopening, then by all means it should happen. The opposite, house arrest against the public wishes, is terrifying.

There have been several polls that show the public is happy with the lockdown, even Republicans.

I misunderstood what the gp meant by "the public are out demanding that reopening happens".

The public wanting something does not mean it “should happen.” Moreover the public does not want premature reopening.

Certainly, but the public should have the correct information on which to make that decision. Demanding public servants massage data to lead public opinion is the same misdeed just with the opposite justification.

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