Have you seen the international covid charts like www.coronavirus.app? It reports the country, number of total covid cases (in that country), number of new cases, number of new deaths, number of total deaths, number of recovered covid patients, number of active cases, number of serious cases, etc. So it is a plus/minus thing, right?
What if you test positive, so told to stay home. You are now added to the covid count, right? Now let’s say you take a shower, slip on a bar of soap, hit your head and die of haemorrhage. You did not die of covid and neither did you recover. So where do you enter that in the counting? I am sure there are some ambiguous cases like that
In Italy, anybody of some specific age group who has died in the last 2 months with 1 or more comorbidities has officially died of coronavirus. So, take its data with a grain of salt, and gargling with lots of salt mixed in warm water can help with the initial tingling feeling of an onset of a cough, fever, or cold.
In China they take the total number and subtract those that died because they can no longer spread it then reduce it by 10% due to inflation then randomize it using broken telephone from local to national level then they multiply by 500x because inevitably people are afraid of the repercussions of self-reporting to get a “subtotal”. They then reduce that by 99% to get the “likely case count” based on what limits risk of foreign investment while maintaining the pangolin and bat trade.
