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The government believes that hiding data is the answer to the problem. > “It’s a complete massacre of data,” said Bhramar Mukherjee, an epidemiologist at the U
by 0xmohit 5y ago
The government believes that hiding data is the answer to the problem.
> “It’s a complete massacre of data,” said Bhramar Mukherjee, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan who has been following India closely. “From all the modeling we’ve done, we believe the true number of deaths is two to five times what is being reported.” [0]
A related comment [1] on censorship in India.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavirus-deaths.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavi...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26928462 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26928462
- zaszrespawned 5y agoWhile this is your opinion, the pictures & words used in those tweets are not DATA either.. words like DEATH BODIES, and images of FIRE sound like social media at its best /s :)
- mohanmcgeek 5y agoOr maybe their model is wrong. To say that reality is wrong when the reality doesn't match somebody's model is peak absurdity
- 0xmohit 5y agoSeems pretty likely that the model underestimates the causalities. https://twitter.com/ARUNSHARMAJI/status/1385439504136237067 https://twitter.com/ARUNSHARMAJI/status/1385439504136237067 https://twitter.com/ahmermkhan/status/1386614534748590083 https://twitter.com/ahmermkhan/status/1386614534748590083 https://twitter.com/NicolaCareem/status/1386357371652526082 https://twitter.com/NicolaCareem/status/1386357371652526082