The Chinese numbers are bogus. Once the health care system in Wuhan collapsed there are no further direct numbers of any value. All we have are whistleblower reports from inside Wuhan and circumstantial evidence to go on. It looks really bad in Wuhan, but that’s going to be a matter for the forensics teams later. Rather than assume that only 1 in 1000 have been infected we can just as validly assume that 999 in 1000 have been infected. Or 1000 in 1000. But we don’t know and won’t know for a long time.
What we do know is that the rest of the world is struggling to contain this and people are dying from it in enough numbers that many governments are employing draconian measures. We know that people that aren’t even showing symptoms, and who may never show symptoms, are infecting others. We know that it has spread to over 1/3 of the world’s countries. We know that it has met the definition of pandemic in spite of falling short of some arbitrary body counts. We know that a lot of cases are still unresolved. Those are all facts.
Dismissing this as insignificant is premature. Wielding bogus Chinese statistics is disingenuous.
Has any independently verified news come out of Wuhan in the last 3 weeks?
I think info control has been total.