Iran told fibs

And, the whole shambles of ‘how many people are we testing’.
We met our 100000 people target.....
But lots were posted out on the last day to random companies
And lots were the same people twice
And we didn’t really mean 100000 people we just meant the tests
And, in the end it was only about 72000
 
It is interesting that in 'advanced' western countries people suspect their governments of lying to them and making the virus seem worse than it is to control the population but in countries with actual authoritarian regimes it appears that their governments were lying to them to make the virus seem less dangerous.

Can both be right?
 
It is interesting that in 'advanced' western countries people suspect their governments of lying to them and making the virus seem worse than it is to control the population but in countries with actual authoritarian regimes it appears that their governments were lying to them to make the virus seem less dangerous.

Can both be right?

But that’s not true
Johnson boasted about shaking hands with coronavirus sufferers
He was on national TV explaining the best policy was to let the virus pass through the community (herd immunity)
Trump has basically said the virus was ‘something and nothing’
Bolsarono - don’t get me started.....
 
They weren't for a long time in the UK. Even now there are greater excess deaths the UK Covid-19 figures account for. They even only counted positive tests in hospitals till much later! This pretence was presented to the public daily.

The embargo on exports to Iran will have made testing and medical care far more difficult than the majority of countries. Also, the refugee camps (mainly from Afghanistan) will have been a medical nightmare.
Don't be upsetting the goldfish!
 
" a BBC Persian service investigation has found."
Ah well, there you go!
Some of you seem desperate for Iran to suffer greater casualties as they struggle to cope despite the malicious trade embargo placed on them by the good guys.
 
maybe we should have just said a third of the number like Iran, or even more like China.
That would make us better.
A report by the Iranian parliament’s research centre in April suggested that the coronavirus tolls might be almost twice as many as those announced by the health ministry, according to Reuters.

The report said that Iran’s official coronavirus figures were based only on the number of deaths in hospitals and those who had already tested positive for the coronavirus.


We were counting even less than Iran at the time. Just hospital positive test deaths. We caught up later, but rely on the ONS to give us more accurate figures.
 
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