I was replying to this: "I just copied the data from WHO sitreps and the total-cases diff of diffs has been increasingly negative for three of the last four day

I was replying to this: "I just copied the data from WHO sitreps and the total-cases diff of diffs has been increasingly negative for three of the last four days." In any case I disagree that the data from Wuhan contains any information. Even if you can magically model away all the problems in the data, the Chinese government is still a disreputable source. Chinese state media is notorious for only showing the CCP in a good light. When you see the words 'Xinhua News', what comes to mind? Propaganda right? I don't understand why people think that China is publishing the truth now, when China is in crisis and freedom of speech is trending on Weibo. Surely this is the time to turn propaganda up to 11. These numbers are the most powerful tool that the Chinese government has for propaganda right now. And given their penchant for it, the baseline assumption should be that they are being massaged into the narrative that Beijing wants to tell.