@Okiya,
The truth is that you just joined this topic last week, so you are obsessing about models, predictions and conspiracies, a stage we passed more than 2 months ago.
New york is not worried about whether it's 'overhyped'; it urgently requires 30, 000 ventilators. Italy is not estimating the dead. They are real. The thread I wrote four days ago entitled 'Corona Comes Home' was about a real person recuoerating, who lost a roommate.
And please do not pretend that Drumpf politics did not trigger your sudden interest. Your
main thread was about democrats and media using Corona to topple the Orange One.