I found the counting approach to Covid so far to be rather fascinating. With the flu in the US they guess and present that number, but we're supposed to attach some meaningful value to the Covid positive counts as though that actually represents anywhere near the real number of Covid cases since the outbreak began. It's bullshit, I'm just not sure why the establishment (media, government, censors, etc) stick so tightly to the line on the bogus official counts. They act like those counts actually represent the outbreak properly. Perhaps in their pathological quest for control (a central theme of most politicians) they need a number to lean on as authoritative, to prop up their weak credibility. If they can't even give you accurate outbreak counts, what else can be believed (masks, no masks; 6 feet, 20 feet, no feet; fear the surfaces, don't fear the surfaces; vaccines take years (nope: 1957 Asian flu); it has been a total clown show the entire pandemic).

India had been seeing near 400,000 cases per day. That's an entirely bogus number of course. And it's near universally agreed upon that it's bogus. The question is whether it's a million, two million, five million, whatever. What's actually closer to the truth? That's where everybody abandons ship, I never see the news media go deep into that part of it (and yet they happily report the made-up flu numbers every year).

Part of the comedy of it, is that the supposed truth enforcers are enforcing a fraud, because none of these official counts are anywhere close to real, no matter which country you pick as the topic.

Is India seeing 4,000 deaths per day, or 10,000, or 15,000? It's a dramatic difference across a month of time. The best you'll get out of the media is a little edge statement of: but it's suspected to be under-reported. Yeah, no kidding.

The US has seen 33 million cases of Covid - that's the reported media line in every story. Everyone knows it's bogus and doesn't represent anywhere close to the number of actual infections in the US and yet it's reported on as properly representing the scale of the pandemic in the US. There has been so much intellectual fraud in this pandemic.

So the obvious question: if they very widely report the made-up / guess-work flu counts every single year, year after year, across all media, why haven't they been doing exactly the same thing with Covid? That's what I want an answer to. Everyone avoids throwing out flu-like guesses on the real scale of the pandemic - the CDC doesn't want to do it, the media doesn't want to do it, the government broadly doesn't want to do it. Why aren't they reporting that it's more likely that there have been 60, 90, 120 million (etc) cases of Covid?

edit: and the downvotes on this are fascinating too, given what I'm talking about is rooted in obvious reality not propaganda or conspiracy theory. I've noticed reality - objectivity, facts, logic - has been particularly unpopular during the pandemic, people have been letting their emotions control their reactions to everything. I don't believe there are very many people ignorant enough to think the official positive Covid counts actually represent the pandemic properly; I do think there are a lot of people desperate to hide from reality for one reason or another, however.