Indeed, you have a point. But in the US at least we have a serious trust issue with what we hear. I believe Fauci, but he still has to play by somebody else's rules.

I too am tracking the numbers. I seriously and honestly expect them to become unavailable- or at least very hard to get to, if things go very very bad.

I expect to see a bump in the "infection rate" in the next few days as testing becomes more widespread. In fact, I expected to see the start of that already, but if it's happened it's not obvious. The number of cases continues to double every two days and change.