re: #186 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

I don’t love the US response to the epidemic either, but I don’t think this can be blamed on them. Worldmeter harvests data from “local” sites, and there’s nothing to stop them from picking up the data from the CA site and publishing it. Yet the numbers don’t match.

Also, Worldmeter is international, so almost all of their data comes from sites the CDC has nothing to do with.

That’s the thing: If we had a standardised plan created by CDC, with normal reporting of any other disease which goes to them, Worldometer could simply use CDC data.

Instead, they have to go through a patchwork of state, county, district, and city sites to collect data: A profound waste of time for the people who have to collate that data from disparate systems all across the country.

This is exactly the fault of the maladministration saying “you’re on your own and by the way, we’re putting political minders in the CDC to make sure you don’t get any help and only the information we want disseminated is promulgated.”

It is exactly Trump and his staff’s fault.

This is deliberate. They did this on purpose. Few if any other countries are having this shitshow reporting data.