If I were to accept your premise that everyone is lying, I’d have to believe that you were lying about that too.
I’m just not paranoid enough to think that. I have enough faith in human incompetence, to doubt any kind of complete control over information.
Qs: Do probables count as CoupFlu cases? Repeat positives of the same patient as new cases? How about labs that use stratospheric cycle thresholds to determine a positive case?
NYS has done and is doing all of that. That has been admitted to by various public officials and health system spokesflaks around the state.
NYS has also admitted to attributing deaths from probables, deaths with CoupFlu to death stats.
Now given how much the NYS numbers have influenced national policy, how the heck do we know anything for certain about CoupFlu?
Especially since other states are pulling the same BS.
Where in Hades are you getting what you consider accurate and reliable info?
The stats are crap.
That’s not paranoia.
It’s common sense.