@rogespeed wrote:
Talking of the virus, is anyone watching the covid 19 tracker? I am and I have started taking daily screenshots. I am noticing some rubbish stats coming out and it is shock to me that no one has called them out on it. Maybe someone has.
Nonsense stat 1. China's total & active cases today and yesterday were reported to be the same (88423 and 2006). Exactly the same. Highly unlikely. No other nation's is totally static.
And USA. Numbers through the roof but get this. Click on some states such as Calif & NY and not one recovered case recorded. I call BS on that. Those states have had the virus hanging around at least as long and in some cases longer than we have here in Vic and most of our cases have recovered. I would have assumed the US just was not recording recovered cases except in some states, they are showing.
So I think we have huge differences in how cases are being recorded from place to place and I am not convinced USA has as many active cases as it is showing as having. (Currently 703,877 cases out of a total of 824069). or perhaps it is just that website.
China has been in lock down for 3 months; they only started slowly reducing the drastic precautions when they stopped having local transmissions. They still have 2 weeks quarantine for anybody arriving into China. Few weeks back they had handful of cases when people came in over land from Russia, and infected people in the small border town; they immediately had that town isolated. So, I am absolutely not surprised China has it under control. Nobody else took as drastic measures as China did. Of course, they may get a second wave, but they know what worked and will isolate any area that gets few cases.
America does not have enough test kits, some of them are suspect. So, they do not test enough, and some of the results may not be accurate. They are also reporting some unexplained complications like blood clots, despite putting people on anticoagulants. They are amputating limbs and do not know how is it happening. On top of that America does not not have social security, and people locked down cities are now depending on foodbanks for food. In NY people are standing in line for 7 hours to get a box of groceries. And with people ignoring social distancing, they have no chance containing it any time soon.
The UK is under enormous pressure with cases, death and complications rising. Again, unless you test the whole population, the stats about infections are not going to be accurate. And it takes one asymptomatic spreader to create huge problem.
I watch the development on:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
This is updated regularly, as the data comes in; however in some times the increase in death or cases may not show because the numbers have not come in.
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