As you probably know, Trump ordered hospitals to stop reporting Covid data to the CDC and instead give it to the dept. of Health and Human Services which is directed by a guy he appointed. What I didn't realize was that this order came into effect July 15th, which is just two days before the all time peak of new cases, on July 17th, after which the new case numbers have been in steady decline. I know this is old news, I just hadn't realized how closely those dates lined up. Kinda scary!
My favorite part of being a leftist is getting outraged, being called a crazed conspiracy theorist, then being vindicated decades later only for the process to repeat on any given issue. We won’t know the full extent of the number fudging until years after this but fuck me if it isn’t obvious it’s happening and double fuck me if I don’t sound like a lunatic trying to talk about it
Fortunately for those on the left outside of America we don't sound like lunatics bringing this up for American numbers.
The problem I have however is that whenever I bring up America fudging their numbers people say "but China" who aren't fudging their numbers at all. It's annoying.
I'd be surprised if they aren't fudging the numbers a little bit also. I doubt there is any country which is completely honest with their Covid numbers.
Seems a bit hard to fudge your numbers when your approach to finding any infection in an area is to lock down the zone and order mandatory 100% testing of the population in order to find the infected and clean it out. Wuhan got 11 new infections discovered and they locked down followed by testing 11million people as a result of it. They consider the area covid-free now and haven't even got social-distancing on it anymore.