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"Lets go ahead and just, NOT round up!"

Nobody seems to give a rip about "precision" in the news. Why suddenly start now?

By not rounding, it looks like they did due diligence.
1000 sounds lazy.

"Hey all, about 1000 died"

vs

"We counted every one of the dead, exactly, and there are 999 new cases."

I still don't believe it.

It sounds like fake precision to me.

Of course it is fake many times I would think as well.

it looks like they did due diligence.

'looks like'