Number 10 cherry-picked ‘spurious’ Covid data to justify England’s second lockdown and may have intended to frighten the public, top Cambridge statistician claims – Daily Mail

• Sir David Spiegelhalter suggested the Government tried to ‘manipulate’ Britons
• Cherry-picked ‘worst-case scenarios’ to ‘instill a certain emotional reaction’
• No10 lambasted for its apocalyptic graphs and spurious data shown to public

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8979123/Number-10-used-apocalyptic-Covid-19-graphs-frighten-public-lockdown-statistician.html