What if the figures are much worst than are being touted? Just look at the official figures.
It seems weird that the entire world is relying on a single private website to know where it stands. Even weirder that on some countries there isn’t even one official portal announcing to the world how many people were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, never mind publishing accurate and on time data on indicators such as number people in ICU (other than the PM), people having recovered from the disease or even fatalities. The UK every single day looks eagerly at the daily figures published on Gov.uk by Public Health England (PHE) and the Department of Health and Social Care. Then, let’s just ignore for a minute how few indicators are being published ( cumulative infections by community, number of tests, number of tests subjects and fatalities). Let’s then focusing on the single most important figure of the pandemic (not because people are nothing more than figures, but it is the only way you size how big the disaster is, and why people should be locked at home): fatalities. The thing with fatalities is the method used to collect that information: you ask hospitals how many people were reported in the last 24hours to have died in hospitals in those …