Hello from Italy. Wanted to share some virus-statistics fuckery that is a daily occurrence here.

On this site, coronaviruslive.it/ you see a breakdown of cases by province, and then lower down is a bar graph showing in yellow "nuovi positivi" (new cases), in red "nuovi deceduti" (new deaths) and in green "nuovi guariti" (new cured).

Just concentrate on the new cases for a minute–you can see that for the past couple weeks there's never fewer than 4000 new cases every day. Scroll down to the very bottom of the page and you'll find that the Italy stats are supposedly coming from the official govt "Protezione Civile" website.

Next, go over to Yahoo.it, and click on the top banner, "Coronavirus: vittime, contagi e tutti gli ultimi aggiornamenti" (victims, infected persons and all the latest updates): it. yahoo.com/notizie/coronavirus-contagi-vittime-tempo-reale-082213528.html

For today (Monday April 6), it says this:

"DATI DI DOMENICA 5 APRILE (ore 18.00, fonte: Protezione Civile):

Positivi: 91.246 (+2.972 rispetto a sabato) "

This says that according to the stats FROM THE SAME DAMNED PROTEZIONE CIVILE WEBSITE, on April 5 there were 2972 new cases. The day before was similar, as was the day before that, roughly 2800-2900 new cases each day.

Day after day, they feed us these "official stats" supposedly taken from the same official source. And day after day there is this fucking humongous discrepancy. The numbers aren't even close. Nobody even bothers to try to explain this.

Btw I have yet to meet anybody in Italy who knows somebody who has the virus.