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[delphonso]

Likewise - I'm sticking to the official numbers here, since I believe they're being as transparent as possible. Cthulhu made a good point earlier in this thread about deaths being compared to a week previous's numbers. I'm also taking a 10% detection rate into account in my mind. It's enough to keep me indoors as much as possible, but also light enough to stop me from stockpiling guns and cans of beans.

[Folly]

What? Check reddit

Ah, the most reliable source on Internet. A bunch of people you don't know on a website known for defending Nazi-ism, pedophilia, and conspiracy theories.

I've seen this board check all three of those categories, multiple times.
A few bad apples doesn't make the whole medium corrupt.

[coalboat]

stockpiling guns and cans of beans.

Yunnan where villagers have gun and slab of opium in their cellar

[Teneb]

So apparently Tencent did a whoopsie and released what might be *real* data on the infection and death rates before changing their tune to match the CCP's numbers.

[Loud Whispers]

So apparently Tencent did a whoopsie and released what might be *real* data on the infection and death rates before changing their tune to match the CCP's numbers.

Absolute madlads

[delphonso]

In the related articles, there's one that says coronavirus is unkillable.

If a real conspiracy was about, Tencent - the equivalent of Facebook - wouldn't have the 'real' numbers in the same database as fake numbers.

Yunnan where villagers have gun and slab of opium in their cellar

No joke. If things go bad I'm probably screwed. Some dude raised a bear here thinking it was a dog.

[scriver]

In the related articles, there's one that says coronavirus is unkillable.

What is dead may never die

[Loud Whispers]

But mutates bigger and phatter

[Stench Guzman]

World War Xi

[JoshuaFH]

I'm really worried that the infection is actually more widespread than reported, and the asymptomatic incubation period may be such that there might be messloads of infected people everywhere, quietly spreading it more and more, until it's too late. I work in a hospital, so if there's suddenly a lot of cases in the US, I might be in the thick of'em.

[Ulfarr]

Well there is an easy way to test those rumors and the supposedly "leaked",  "real" numbers. Now that the virus has gone global and if said rumors are true then in the next 20 or so days, we can expect similarily huge numbers to be reported/get leaked from all over the world and good luck containing them in that case 

Honestly I don't see any reason to prefer one version of data over the other. Lots of goverments have tried to obscure the truth to protect their intersets before and news media thrive on fear mongering so they always try to overblow any report or story in order to generate more views/sales and gain more profits.

[ChairmanPoo]

In the related articles, there's one that says coronavirus is unkillable.

What is dead may never die

But rises... harder, stronger

(That's what she said)

[Trekkin]

Well there is an easy way to test those rumors and the supposedly "leaked",  "real" numbers. Now that the virus has gone global and if said rumors are true then in the next 20 or so days, we can expect similarily huge numbers to be reported/get leaked from all over the world and good luck containing them in that case

Except that it's an RNA virus, so its mutation rate is notoriously high. Trying to extrapolate from later variants is extremely error-prone.

[Ulfarr]

I'm afraid I'm missing the point that you are making Trekkin   

All I'm saying is that if the virus can speard as easily and is as deadly as the rumors claim then we are going to witness an unexpectedly big increase in the reported numbers from all over the world. And since these reports will come from different countries with probably different interests/priorities then it will be a lot more difficult if not impossible to contain/obscure the new numbers.

[Iduno]

What? Check reddit

Ah, the most reliable source on Internet. A bunch of people you don't know on a website known for defending Nazi-ism, pedophilia, and conspiracy theories.

I've seen this board check all three of those categories, multiple times.
A few bad apples doesn't make the whole medium corrupt.

Yes, but we also haven't hit such a high percentage that it's known as our thing.

In the related articles, there's one that says coronavirus is unkillable.

I guess that is technically true, in that viruses aren't generally considered living.