Why would you trust data coming form the country that is putting over 2+ million people into concentration, er... 're-education' camps, and it was denying it...

Why would you trust data coming form the country that is putting over 2+ million people into concentration, er... 're-education' camps, and it was denying it.... Propaganda is a strong tool of dictatorial regimes, and in cases of existential crises it is essential. On the other side of the border, another communist regime (North Korea), still claims that has 0 cases of Covid-19, yet the indication is that deaths are incresed.... Iran, until recently it was denying it had a problem, and their numbers are just not trusted..... In any regime where 1) Free speech is suppressed with extreme measures (people disappearing) 2) There is strong incentive from that regime to mask numbers.... They probably did, unless there were independent verifiers that could verify those numbers.... I lived under a communist regime, and absolutely don't trust the numbers coming out of China... This is even worse than Chernobyl, which true numbers of victims of the after-math cleanup efforts are not known even today: "Since the 1990s—when the declassification of selected liquidator records prompted some direct participants to speak publicly—some with direct involvement in the liquidators' cleanup efforts have asserted that several thousand liquidators died as a result of the cleanup.[18] Other organizations claim that total liquidator deaths as a result of the cleanup operation may number at least 6,000.[19]"