The kind of reactions that are being seen are just totally shameful
How can someone not have running water for 5 years? Honestly, you can say “welfare queen”, just plain stupid, or whatever, but this kind of thing really should not be happening in a developed country.
Similar story in FL:
Another “China deceived the WHO” story. I’m so sick of these because they are just spineless politicians trying so hard to cover their rear-ends.
What I find amazing is the breadth of the control over the media. It’s really insidious and subtle. This article is concentrating the criticism mainly on this point:
What's amazing is the sheer number of stories that repeat this same exact criticism. It's the only "proof" ever shown with regards to "WHO complicity in the Chinese cover-up". Funny enough, the author contradicts themselves nearly immediately.
Of course we have been following this story closely for a while on this forum and know that this erroneous initial conclusion was due to the fact that authorities were concentrating on severe cases and the spread of mild and asymptomatic cases was not well known at the time. However, let's not let inconvenient facts get in the way of the political finger pointing!
Anyway, I could do a paragraph by paragraph deconstruction of this trash, but I won't to save time and headaches.
If you read any of these articles, they all basically follow circular references. Usually to a (as Jura put it) "MAGA-author" (or think-tank or publication). Then the next article references that one and so on. Very rarely do they actually link to scientific source material, when they do, it's in a very unscientific way.
For example, that article mentioned the Cambridge study that quoted the reduction in "95 percent of cases" if action had been taken sooner. What they don't mention is that study also said that the model shows that the actions taken were able to reduce caseload by 75%. I've seen this "95%" number quoted indirectly at least 5 different times.
The "Taiwan warning the WHO" email is already well detailed above. They didn't issue any warnings. All they did was ask for information. It was like if we all suddenly went out in the world and self-declared ourselves as warning the whole world because we had posted detailed information months ago on this publicly accessible forum! Yet many outlets are picking up this story.
I've also seen many articles use the Bloomberg article on the US Intelligence report that concluded China is lying as proof that China is lying... Has anyone actually seen the content of this report? I assume it's top secret, but even if we have the full report, it's so ridiculous that the media is essentially asking to be cynical about one government's report, but not another's "just because".
I have always been very weary of "fake news" even before it was considered a "thing". However, now with the internet, one can see the how deep the blatant manipulation of facts can be. It is truly some next level Potemkin village building.
How can someone not have running water for 5 years? Honestly, you can say “welfare queen”, just plain stupid, or whatever, but this kind of thing really should not be happening in a developed country.
Similar story in FL:
Another “China deceived the WHO” story. I’m so sick of these because they are just spineless politicians trying so hard to cover their rear-ends.
What I find amazing is the breadth of the control over the media. It’s really insidious and subtle. This article is concentrating the criticism mainly on this point:
What's amazing is the sheer number of stories that repeat this same exact criticism. It's the only "proof" ever shown with regards to "WHO complicity in the Chinese cover-up". Funny enough, the author contradicts themselves nearly immediately.
Of course we have been following this story closely for a while on this forum and know that this erroneous initial conclusion was due to the fact that authorities were concentrating on severe cases and the spread of mild and asymptomatic cases was not well known at the time. However, let's not let inconvenient facts get in the way of the political finger pointing!
Anyway, I could do a paragraph by paragraph deconstruction of this trash, but I won't to save time and headaches.
If you read any of these articles, they all basically follow circular references. Usually to a (as Jura put it) "MAGA-author" (or think-tank or publication). Then the next article references that one and so on. Very rarely do they actually link to scientific source material, when they do, it's in a very unscientific way.
For example, that article mentioned the Cambridge study that quoted the reduction in "95 percent of cases" if action had been taken sooner. What they don't mention is that study also said that the model shows that the actions taken were able to reduce caseload by 75%. I've seen this "95%" number quoted indirectly at least 5 different times.
The "Taiwan warning the WHO" email is already well detailed above. They didn't issue any warnings. All they did was ask for information. It was like if we all suddenly went out in the world and self-declared ourselves as warning the whole world because we had posted detailed information months ago on this publicly accessible forum! Yet many outlets are picking up this story.
I've also seen many articles use the Bloomberg article on the US Intelligence report that concluded China is lying as proof that China is lying... Has anyone actually seen the content of this report? I assume it's top secret, but even if we have the full report, it's so ridiculous that the media is essentially asking to be cynical about one government's report, but not another's "just because".
I have always been very weary of "fake news" even before it was considered a "thing". However, now with the internet, one can see the how deep the blatant manipulation of facts can be. It is truly some next level Potemkin village building.
