[derangedHorse]

"looking at them, there is no obvious statistical anomaly to say that yes, China is hiding something from us"

Sure, but we wouldn't be able to find any statistical anomaly if China was hiding something because we simply don't have enough data ourselves to determine that.

I feel like your stance may be the opposite extreme of fear-mongering, which is downplaying the potential unreliability of data that many people have good reason to speculate about (as you might've already seen in this thread SARS cases were underreported).