Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[vivster]

SpokenTruth said:

vivster said:

Corruption. A lot of people have a vested interest to manipulate numbers. Incidentally, those are the people with the most power.

Extremely hard to manipulate the numbers in the US because of decentralization.  Each county individually reports to their state health boards who then send that data to the CDC and other agencies.  The county data is easily accessible for most of them. 

The corruption in The US happens on all levels. From the lowly sheriff to the president. It might not be a coordinated effort across the country to suppress numbers, but I'm very much sure that on all levels some numbers will be "lost". The highest achievement seems to be re-election and there are people willing to do everything to reach that goal.