Dave is a bit like the person doing a stock audit. There is old stock with a shelf life close to expiring, right on expiry and some stock with a past expiry date.
Instead of accepting that the stock that is past the expiry date can’t be counted as current stock ......... the person just changes the expiry date and so re-classifies the stock.
In the same way there are in Australia +3,000 people becoming deceased each week............ if the cause of death is re-classified you can create what ever politically emotional outcome that you wish to create.
+3,000 per week.......... if we aren’t getting that number now, we will be playing catch-up later.......... if there is a new and unique cause of death then it will need to show up in the audit and not just be a shuffle of the numbers from one column to another.
