{"id":28029,"date":"2020-03-20T23:24:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T04:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28029"},"modified":"2020-03-20T23:24:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T04:24:34","slug":"the-problem-of-questionable-data-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/03\/20\/the-problem-of-questionable-data-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem Of Questionable Data, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader writes concerning how <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/03\/18\/the-problem-of-questionable-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Italy has recently passed China<\/a> in number of deaths from COVID-19:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apparently there are a lot of Chinese nationals living and working for Chinese-owned factories in northern Italy, and a lot of travel back and forth for the Chinese New Year holiday:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/04\/16\/the-chinese-workers-who-assemble-designer-bags-in-tuscany?fbclid=IwAR3OvvjhSE4TWSHDlCGZNFuhIa7aZLwCKLn4WwLvRl7-Ei5m8rBxPOkafSc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-lynx-mode=\"asynclazy\" data-lynx-uri=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2018%2F04%2F16%2Fthe-chinese-workers-who-assemble-designer-bags-in-tuscany%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3OvvjhSE4TWSHDlCGZNFuhIa7aZLwCKLn4WwLvRl7-Ei5m8rBxPOkafSc&amp;h=AT1JCWuzoWzPw846l5z-4bWAmRcTVhk81ygMtFf3UHeeclNY5_72Qata68K3TxTi9SKj4ZD9f6DzdJQ0xNW47nVHIIdtJsrAFUaGwe0wNif5glrF_LEsOYEowoqk\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/&#8230;\/the-chinese-workers-who&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-2020-03-20-23-21-23.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-28031 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-2020-03-20-23-21-23.jpg?resize=228%2C263&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-2020-03-20-23-21-23.jpg?w=291&amp;ssl=1 291w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-2020-03-20-23-21-23.jpg?resize=261%2C300&amp;ssl=1 261w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-2020-03-20-23-21-23.jpg?resize=130%2C150&amp;ssl=1 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a>That explains a lot &#8211; basically, northern Italy becomes a small province of China. But are we seeing the same thing in Africa, which also has some significant transitory Chinese populations? From the image on the right, it appears not &#8211; but, again, how trustworthy is the data? All those small dots mean a very small number of infections, and no deaths.<\/p>\n<p>And Russia continues to have absurdly small numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader writes concerning how Italy has recently passed China in number of deaths from COVID-19: Apparently there are a lot of Chinese nationals living and working for Chinese-owned factories in northern Italy, and a lot of travel back and forth for the Chinese New Year holiday:\u00a0https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/&#8230;\/the-chinese-workers-who&#8230; That explains a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/03\/20\/the-problem-of-questionable-data-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28032,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28029\/revisions\/28032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}