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not cool to passive aggressively "quote" a grammatically incorrect comment clearly made by an ESL commenter

• rconti 7y ago
  It wasn't passive aggressive. And the issue was not a grammatical error, it was a logical error that I don't believe the governments in question would make. I was pointing out that a conspiracy that will obviously collapse under its own weight as infections obviously increase is not a good conspiracy. (not to insult the theory, just the premise such a theory would describe). Countries deliberately underreporting infections early on simply doesn't make sense except perhaps for China, before it spread beyond its borders, hoping to keep a lid on things. Now that it's starting to spread in other countries, it's too late to pretend like it won't continue to get at least somewhat larger. Any numbers you falsify today will look bad tomorrow, clearly. Which is what China found out. Which is why I don't think such a conspiracy theory holds water.