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>This is how China has largely stayed covid free. Do people actually believe this? If you look at their reported numbers from early on in the pandemic its plai
by ellopoppit 5y ago
>This is how China has largely stayed covid free.
Do people actually believe this? If you look at their reported numbers from early on in the pandemic its plainly obvious when they decided to start hard censoring their true numbers.
Look at the reported deaths before and after 4/19/20.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/
Note that 4/19/20 was also the same day they were arresting activists who had been reporting on the coverups that had been going on since late 2019.
https://qz.com/1846277/china-arrests-users-behind-github-coronavirus-memories-page/amp/ https://qz.com/1846277/china-arrests-users-behind-github-cor...
- kbelder 5y agoFrighteningly, the Chinese official numbers are used in studies and analysis of Covid spread, despite them being entirely unreliable.
- 908B64B197 5y agoLook who's financing these studies...
- fold3 5y agoI was in the Netherlands for the first year of the pandemic and the local CDC was very hostile to testing until rather late. I believe good studies take that into account.
- Barrin92 5y ago>Do people actually believe this? I was in Beijing for most of 2020 and spring of 2021 so yes as life was normal. I mean I don't doubt the numbers are unreliable or off by 5-10x or something at the beginning of the pandemic but I didn't have a single case at work or my social circle for the entire year of 2020. So at least from the summer on I consider it fairly accurate.