“If these are the genuine numbers...”
I suspect a lot of people missed that “if”.
It seems even the author of the article is not sure.
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It’s hard to function when your own government and media lie and withhold information. You then state to the best of your ability and are accused of being inaccurate. The alternative is to remain silent and be lied to.
We report to the best of our ability on FR because the MSM lies to us daily, 24/7. Same thing. We won’t sit quiet and just believe what CNN tells us about President Trump etc. Then when we cite other sources, those are sneered at as ‘unofficial’.