I cannot understand the logic of over inflating numbers. Spend lots of money unnecessarily. Nobel Prize for identifying a treatment/vaccine. Kill the economy.
I can see transparency in reporting actual numbers. Justifies the money spent. Experts doing appropriate work for treatment/vaccine. Economy will adapt.
I cannot understand the logic of under inflating numbers. Don't spend money necessary. Not a priority to find treatment/vaccine. Kill more people.
Governments don't want to admit how woefully unprepared they and their health care systems are and how inept they are at dealing with a crisis such as this. Number of deaths are being vastly under-reported. In Italy alone, COVID deaths at home or in nursing homes are not included in the total death count. ONLY in-hospital deaths. They are not the only ones to be counting in such manner. I read a news article coming out of china where a reported compared the number of urns being filled by funeral homes versus the normal death rate + COVID deaths being reported. As you might imagine the discrepancy was staggering.
