Dear sir, given your view that the CDC is “wracked with internal division” and "office politics” and “disorganization,” as well as being “possibly the worst agency in the gov’t,” your assertion that its data collection is “halfway competent” is damning with faint praise.
Nonetheless, my point is that the worldometer data and visualization — not the CDC per se — suggest that the worldwide “pandemic” is of far less significance medically than the media hysteria and authoritarian political responses to it warranted.
As a follow on to that worldwide "official" data from "official" sources, the comparison the the US data more than suggests that the US' response has been pathetic, if its data is correct.
How pathetic? Over three and a half times more deadly and inept that the world's average response, which includes ALL the third world.
The CDC, NIH and FDA have led that demonstrably pathetic response, with Fauci and Collins and Walensky at the helm.
To assert that its "data collection falls in that latter category," that is, "halfway competent" is fuel for skepticism.
That "halfway competent" but "worst agency in the gov’t" has bred an "over three and a half times more deadly" and inept medical response than any other in the world.
Worst in the world.
No, you still make an all too typical mistake. Obviously you’ve never been in an organization, say, a business, in a position such that you can see it has pieces operating at different competencies. It is quite common. Probably the norm, actually.
If you can’t accept that, tell you what. Canvass several large churches and see what you come back with for fatalities data, vs. CDC data for your area.