Pretty cool how @Lurker caught onto this before anyone
This isn't really true, and the part that is can be easily explained. To start with,
@yuneeq called out FL's deceit before I was even taking Covid as a serious threat. Additionally, the local media had to sue the state in order to get them to release LTCF numbers, which were finally released for the first time in mid-April, so to say I was on it before anyone else isn't 100% accurate. I happen to live in FL, so I have a vested interest in FL's stats, but for the first month or so I was primarily focused on the places where the drama was: NY Metro, and Italy. I only started really looking into FL's numbers more closely when people from metro NY started pointing here as an example of what they'd like to see from Cuomo, Muprhy, et al. The numbers didn't make sense to me, so I tried figuring out how it was possible. When people started raising flags about how NY's numbers may be manipulated and skewed, I thought about what the motivations may be in NY, and what FL's motivations might be to do the opposite. To date, I do not have a single shred of concrete evidence that FL's numbers are fudged. All I have is a long list of things FL isn't making public, along with numbers and charts that don't match anything we know about the spread of this virus anywhere in the world. If omission is lying, this thread will have plenty of content.
I would just like to point out, that while NY's possible manipulation of data is really irrelevant to FL's situation, anyone who believes that it happened cannot deny that it is possible in FL, as well. The how and the why will vary, because different people have different abilities and motivations. But if you think NY played with the numbers because of money and politics, it would be dishonest to dismiss out of hand that FL is doing the same thing.