• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    But the US beats the hell out of China any day of the week.

    It's true, the US beats the hell out of China in school shootings, and medical debt, racially targeted police brutality, bombing foreign countries, and number of homeless people, and... Oh I could do this for days.

      • cheese_weiner@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        US definitely has a prison problem. Definitely not acting like it's perfect.

        But that makes China okay how? Do you even believe the numbers they spread? Covid is a great example of how reliable Chinese figures are.

        • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          COVID deaths had some degree of undercounting everywhere. Let’s do the global comparison, shall we? Here’s the ratio of estimated deaths (using figures like excess mortality rate) to report deaths globally:

          Show Global map

          Source: Figure 2 from https://www.healthdata.org/research-analysis/diseases-injuries/covid/estimation-total-and-excess-mortality-due-covid-19

    • cheese_weiner@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      At least I don't have a government score rating my contributions to a central power. China is a dystopia.