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There was a thread where I was getting some flak for suggesting China's numbers are the product of its propaganda machine. I have no idea how accurate these claims are. They come from someone who is a Hong Kong activist of some sort, but these are the reasons I use to justify my belief China has been less than transparent. I do think scientists make an effort to share accurate information with each other when it comes to specifics about the virus, but the public health numbers leave a lot of room to be skeptical, IMO.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/joshuawongcf/status/1244098907715407873[/tweet]

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Oh, and look at this:

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/w...82846.html

Regarding the funeral urns...one could argue that they're not all for Covid19. =/

Then again, that's a ton of urns, and rumors about rejecting sick people to keep the count down have been going on since the outbreak blew up back in January.  That, along with not testing post mortem (patient would die of say pneumonia, and then be cremated immediately without a test to see if Covid19 caused it, for example) were two of the big ones floating around back in Jan/Feb.

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There was a thread where I was getting some flak for suggesting China's numbers are the product of its propaganda machine. I have no idea how accurate these claims are. They come from someone who is a Hong Kong activist of some sort, but these are the reasons I use to justify my belief China has been less than transparent. I do think scientists make an effort to share accurate information with each other when it comes to specifics about the virus, but the public health numbers leave a lot of room to be skeptical, IMO.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/joshuawongcf/status/1244098907715407873[/tweet]

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Oh, and look at this:

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/w...82846.html

Regarding the funeral urns...one could argue that they're not all for Covid19. =/

Then again, that's a ton of urns, and rumors about rejecting sick people to keep the count down have been going on since the outbreak blew up back in January.  That, along with not testing post mortem (patient would die of say pneumonia, and then be cremated immediately without a test to see if Covid19 caused it, for example) were two of the big ones floating around back in Jan/Feb.