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China has pretty propaganda-heavy testing infrastructure - they do heavily publicised one-off mass testing of entire cities which the state media points to as p
by makomk 5y ago
China has pretty propaganda-heavy testing infrastructure - they do heavily publicised one-off mass testing of entire cities which the state media points to as proof of their superiority over other countries which aren't doing that, but outside of that testing appears to be extremely questionable. They've had pretty astounding incidents like not testing people hospitalized with Covid symptoms in the one province which had known, uncontrolled community spread at the time at a point when Western countries (or at least the UK) were systematically testing anyone who went near a hospital. And of course testing entire cities is going to miss recently infected people and doesn't help find cases outside the city boundary, which is likely more common than they let on...
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoIt’s not just propaganda though. Anyone who has family or friends in China has heard gripes about how much testing they are being subject to. You can’t really dismiss them as being brainwashed with the party line or something. China has a zero COVID policy, and they are extremely aggressive about that. I guess you are arguing that these policies are just applied to the cities and not the villages?