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What do you have in mind by "telling everyone they have the virus under control"? I don't recall any such communication from China. If you mean the cover-up or

What do you have in mind by "telling everyone they have the virus under control"? I don't recall any such communication from China. If you mean the cover-up or data fudging accusations, I highly recommend the four part series in Quillette that examines the merit of these charges. It's very long, however. https://quillette.com/category/covid-19/china-syndrome-series/ https://quillette.com/category/covid-19/china-syndrome-serie... Here's the Twitter thread where the author introduced the series and gave some helpful backgrounds: https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1298053847844368386 https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1298053847844368386 As he says: "Again, I know that many of you are skeptical, but this essay has required a ridiculous amount of work and I'm really confident about the conclusions I reach, so I hope you will read it with an open-mind. I will post the other parts in this thread as they are published."

kortilla 6y ago
Refuting it shouldn’t require 4 essays though unless there are a bunch of mental gymnastics involved that the author has to sell you on? What is the tldr? China didn’t do it on purpose and they were just grossly incompetent? They didn’t share data because it was all in word perfect files and they couldn’t convert it?
- porpoise 6y ago
  I strongly recommend giving that Twitter thread a look (click the "see more tweets" to expand it), where author also explains why he had to write so many words. By "mental gymnastics" I assume you mean "needlessly drawn out argumentation/reasoning". The essays contain very little of that and are densely packed with arguments and links. Only exception is in Past IV where he gets technical explaining why China's data does not violate Benford's law as some have suggested. The tldr is that there is little evidence to support the charge of "deliberate cover-up" during initial outbreak or subsequent data fudging.

kortilla 6y ago

Refuting it shouldn’t require 4 essays though unless there are a bunch of mental gymnastics involved that the author has to sell you on? What is the tldr? China didn’t do it on purpose and they were just grossly incompetent? They didn’t share data because it was all in word perfect files and they couldn’t convert it?

porpoise 6y ago
I strongly recommend giving that Twitter thread a look (click the "see more tweets" to expand it), where author also explains why he had to write so many words. By "mental gymnastics" I assume you mean "needlessly drawn out argumentation/reasoning". The essays contain very little of that and are densely packed with arguments and links. Only exception is in Past IV where he gets technical explaining why China's data does not violate Benford's law as some have suggested. The tldr is that there is little evidence to support the charge of "deliberate cover-up" during initial outbreak or subsequent data fudging.