I admit, I don’t trust them.
But there is an odd pattern here:
China has low numbers — they must be lying.
Russia has low numbers — they must be lying.
India has low numbers — they must be lying.
We are a nation of 330 million people and we have 200 dead. Are we lying? Or maybe this thing is hyped?
Actually, given that those with weakened immune systems are vulnerable I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the reporting is being kept low to avoid attracting attention to homosexuals as disease vectors, sort of the flip side to how Italy was reporting any death as CV19 when that may have not been the only thing.
China is definitely lying, there were enough private videos and posts out of there before the crackdown to show that.
Russia closed off there border to China just as fast as we did, plus there is no regular movement from Beijing to Moscow in the numbers that we have. Not much contact, not much virus. I can believe those numbers.
COVID-19 is not happy in hot weather and most of India is probably too warm for it to propagate efficiently. I believe those numbers.