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How China covered up COVID

How China covered up COVID

A dictatorship lied about a pandemic that started within its borders. Imagine that.

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Dec 02, 2020
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According to the running tally of COVID-19 cases tracked by Worldometer, as of Monday the People’s Republic of China ranked 71st in total infections, with 86,530 in total, and discovered eighteen new cases on that date.

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I’m perfectly willing to believe that China really does have far fewer COVID-19 cases than the United States, India and the larger Western European countries. When you’re a dictatorship, at the very least, you can make damn sure everyone is masking up when they go outside, and you don’t have to worry about these pesky anti-lockdown demonstrations. (When China locks down, it literally locks down.)

Do they have fewer total cases than Canada, with a tiny fraction of China’s population but almost five times as many reported infections? I’m pretty skeptical of that one, especially considering that the Atlantic Provinces alone are easily recording more than eighteen new cases per day.

In any event, CNN has gotten its hands on some Chinese government documents, which show t…

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