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I'd love to be corrected with primary source but as far as I can ingest from all the recent article's I'm reading, Bloomberg is also the only source that starte

by xster 6y ago

I'd love to be corrected with primary source but as far as I can ingest from all the recent article's I'm reading, Bloomberg is also the only source that started the whole China is falsifying its covid numbers narrative based on what "the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials. The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret, and they declined to detail its contents." This was then parroted in all the other major publications. (I'm not counting things like Pompeo just saying stuff https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/interview-pompeo-sends-mixed-messages-coronavirus-wuhan-lab-993341 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/intervie...)

bitcurious 6y ago
>https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/china-wuhan-revises-coronavirus-death-toll-50-percent-200417042241868.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/china-wuhan-revises-c... Here’s a very unbloomberg source article that says that China underreported deaths by 50%.
- xster 6y ago
  Not sure if you read the article you're linking. I'd say it's demonstrating the inverse if what you're saying, i.e. china is so not 'falsifying numbers' that it went back in time to tally cases that never made it into the hospitals for accuracy. I don't know if many countries progressed to the stage of being able to look back to revise and reshare adjustments on previous statistics. If just number jumps are your thing, you'd have more fun with the 100% jump in china cases when they revised the definition of confirmed cases as anyone with glassy spots in their lungs from CT scans but without viral tests yet.
  - bitcurious 6y ago
    Alternatively; they were called out, and the discrepancy between the reality and reported was too wide, they had to do something.
    - xster 6y ago
      I think people have trouble grasping the concept of exponential growth.

by xster 6y ago

bitcurious 6y ago

>https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/china-wuhan-revises-coronavirus-death-toll-50-percent-200417042241868.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/china-wuhan-revises-c... Here’s a very unbloomberg source article that says that China underreported deaths by 50%.

xster 6y ago
Not sure if you read the article you're linking. I'd say it's demonstrating the inverse if what you're saying, i.e. china is so not 'falsifying numbers' that it went back in time to tally cases that never made it into the hospitals for accuracy. I don't know if many countries progressed to the stage of being able to look back to revise and reshare adjustments on previous statistics. If just number jumps are your thing, you'd have more fun with the 100% jump in china cases when they revised the definition of confirmed cases as anyone with glassy spots in their lungs from CT scans but without viral tests yet.
- bitcurious 6y ago
  Alternatively; they were called out, and the discrepancy between the reality and reported was too wide, they had to do something.
  - xster 6y ago
    I think people have trouble grasping the concept of exponential growth.