Yes the Guardian is probably the best of the bunch and imperfect as you say oojason.

Although earlier in this thread I said about a scare from my Dad having coronavirus and testing negative in Spain. It now is being stated that the test kits the Spanish bought are unreliable. So he probably did have it and the test was useless. Thankfully he has recovered.

We are also now entering the time where as things are on an upward curve that the stats can become distorted. Deaths that have transpired over 3 weeks ago are being added to the daily death toll registered on top of the NHS stats.

There is also a case for can some of these deaths be 100% accurately attributed to coronavirus and can we be totally trustworthy of the figures atfributed by these extra deaths.

All in all the point I wish to make is that we will never truly know the actual number of deaths, cases and people that recovered. It is not a pointless excersize and as a guide with missing data it is adequete but it is unfortunately futile data at most. The media organizations can’t grapple with this problem that they really don’t have anything solid to provide and although they must keep people informed we all must just stop the spread and kickstart all our economies.

We all rely on eachother in this world. Stats and testkits and vaccines will only go so far towards solving this problem. It all comes down to common sense and just stay safe. I thunk we can all accept both good and bad will come from this situation but we must strive to get back to normal or a new normal.