Wuhan, the epicenter of this pandemic is going to lift its lockdown next week on 4/8 (Wuhan basically has no new case since Mar 20) tells me that China's data is not too much way off. Certainly China's data is not reliable to make some accurate analysis. The root problem of China's data, as their other data, is from local officials. For me China's data provides me a big and rough picture. But I am strongly against this kind of reasoning:
Wuhan was locked down on Jan 23, Lombardy was locked down on Feb 22. Wuhan is going to lift its lockdown on Apri 8. If Lombardy fails to lift its lockdown by May 8, Lombardy can accuse Wuhan of cheating or misleading the scale of coronavirus epidemic.
Neither China nor Italy are standard of integrity. But our IC and MSM are not standard of integrity either.