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I'm honestly pretty disappointed in the BBC for covering this like it is fact and not calling into question the data integrity issues China is infamous for. Nev
by michaelgiba 6y ago
I'm honestly pretty disappointed in the BBC for covering this like it is fact and not calling into question the data integrity issues China is infamous for. Nevertheless, I do think China, at least before re-opening, had less community spread than most other countries due to the severity of their lock-down. Authoritarian countries are able to impose measures like this much more quickly than democracies, for better or for worse.
- bllguo 6y agoso where are the mountains of dead bodies? where are the macro indicators? what I'm disappointed in is even in the face of evidence that much of the nonsense about fake data and coverups was exaggerated, Westerners will continue to believe it
- system2 6y agoI think we can call this authoritarian silver lining. I wonder what is actually happening in North Korea.
- peacefulhat 6y agoHow many people do you think have died from covid in China? America has 200x deaths per capita according to official numbers.
- dole 6y agoLast time I checked about a month ago, China reported ~6,700 total deaths, I would guess ~8,000 now. I'm still surprised this isn't a more publicized, aggravating, and/or disputed figure, even given China's questionable reporting.
- chillacy 6y agoI've been treating the covid death count like GDP out of China. It's probably padded (e.g. you can count a death as "pneumonia" instead of covid), but it's probably not an order of magnitude off. The reality is that surveillance states and collectivist societies like South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, etc will have an advantage when it comes to coordination. China is very much one of these types of societies.