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Cerebus:

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--- Quote from: vad on April 03, 2020, 06:07:01 pm ---https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/us/politics/cia-coronavirus-china.html

Predictive epidemiological models based on data from China are garbage. People’s Republic has been manipulating its Covid-19 statistics.

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Of course the source of this is impeccable. After all, the CIA have never been known to distort the truth or mislead people for their own political ends. Glad we're finally getting data from such an honest, reliable, trustworthy source that has never been implicated in murder, torture, or commercial drug smuggling to illicitly fund a revolution in another country, let alone misinformation campaigns. Glad we've got that straight.

Why would you think I was being sarcastic? A bunch of spies and manipulators are the obvious choice to turn to for epidemiological data. There's no possibility that they might be trying to sew some kind of story that puts a country that they regard as political enemies in a bad light.

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I got it. In your opinion NYT are either not trustworthy or are not able to check facts. Presumably, because you think NYT was implicated in murder and torture...

Who are credible then? Xinhua or Russia Today?

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Why because I distrust reporting based on statements by your country's bunch of bastards do you assume that I'm going to advocate some other country's reporting of their bunch of bastards as trustworthy? Some of us haven't bought into this whole partisan thing.

It's got nothing to do with the NYT, they are just reporting what has been said by another.  Its not an editorial, it's reportage. Just because the report is in the NYT doesn't lend the contents of what they are reporting on the imprimatur of truth. The reporting may be as accurate as you like while the matter reported is completely flawed.

paulca:
In other more important news.  The logarithmic graphs are showing a downward deflection.  Inflection point?

... or lack of tests?

hwj-d:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on April 03, 2020, 07:03:31 pm ---...
It's got nothing to do with the NYT, they are just reporting what has been said by another.  Its not an editorial, it's reportage. Just because the report is in the NYT doesn't lend the contents of what they are reporting on the imprimatur of truth. The reporting may be as accurate as you like while the matter reported is completely flawed.

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 :-DD   :palm:

Cerebus:

--- Quote from: hwj-d on April 03, 2020, 07:09:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cerebus on April 03, 2020, 07:03:31 pm ---...
It's got nothing to do with the NYT, they are just reporting what has been said by another.  Its not an editorial, it's reportage. Just because the report is in the NYT doesn't lend the contents of what they are reporting on the imprimatur of truth. The reporting may be as accurate as you like while the matter reported is completely flawed.

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 :-DD   :palm:

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Says the man who regards YouTube fringe conspiracists as a reliable source.

Simon:

--- Quote from: paulca on April 03, 2020, 07:07:08 pm ---In other more important news.  The logarithmic graphs are showing a downward deflection.  Inflection point?

... or lack of tests?

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Not really, it almost looks like a testing/reporting bottleneck. We stay the same for 3 days then jump.... again. Bearing in mind that the definition of someone who has it in the UK seems to be that it's so bad that they end up in hospital. The people that just feel a bit off and could have been infectious for up to 2 weeks are told to stay home and not inform anyone of their condition. It's almost like they don't what to know the real numbers and are hoping to be able to report less to justify their suicidal approach at the start.

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