Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in...
by jariel on Sunday January 26, 2020 @12:42AM
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"In the end none of the above matters at all."
It matters critically if China, or anyone else, is in any way lying about anything.
Official reports are 2K infected, if it's actually 100K and they are not telling the WHO, it's really, really bad.
What the 'put on the news' is another matter and gray area concerning information control in crisis times (i.e. trying to stop mass panic). But with the WHO and other governments, it's another story.
It's not like they can entirely hide these things, I really wonder what kind of other 'interested parties' are making their own clandestine measurements.
It matters critically if China, or anyone else, is in any way lying about anything.
Official reports are 2K infected, if it's actually 100K and they are not telling the WHO, it's really, really bad.
What the 'put on the news' is another matter and gray area concerning information control in crisis times (i.e. trying to stop mass panic). But with the WHO and other governments, it's another story.
It's not like they can entirely hide these things, I really wonder what kind of other 'interested parties' are making their own clandestine measurements.