Month-on-month change charts for economic indicators should be banned in a context like this. A 20.3% contraction followed by a 1.8% expansion is *anything but* a V-shaped recovery, yet the at-a-glance takeaway here is V. There's just no need to make this chart.

The steepness of the line should be an immediate red flag: there’s no way something like that can be genuine, so it must come from a quirk in the data. What quirk? This quirk xitter.cf/jburnmurdoch/status/12…

Updating the trajectory charts is a great demo of dataviz as fact-checking tool "Data done, how does it look when we plot it?" "Ah, 3 countries resurrected people, one went from averaging 3 deaths to 100, one vanished" Far easier to spot weirdness in a chart than a spreadsheet