So the title from NPR (National Propagandada Radio) article misleadingly states
China has stopped publishing daily COVID data amid reports of a huge spike in cases
Despite the text stating, in fact, that China hasn't stopped publishing COVID data. Rather a different agency would be reporting the data.
China's National Health Commission said in a statement that it would no longer publish the data daily beginning Sunday and that "from now on, the Chinese CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) will release relevant COVID information for reference and research."
One can read data in the Chinese CDC page with COVID infection statistics here. It looks like data reported from from the National Health Commission Page.
I fucking hate the West
Every lib and trot in that last thread fell for it without even reading the article lol
Some of you people seriously are so attached to your political bugbears you believe anti-China propaganda from NPR headlines completely uncritically
:party-parenti: doesn't miss.
The thing about the Chinese CDC taking over is just the second paragraph on the NPR article.
Worse than accepting western media at face value is just accepting western headlines at face value.
There's a legitimate change in policy, in terms of mandates on testing and co-mingling, that will erode the reliability of Chinese COVID statistics simply because they're no longer engaging with the problem so aggressively. But the degree and scale relative to Western nations is incomparable, primarily because Western nations never embraced such a long term Zero COVID strategy.
There's a conversation you can have about whether the bureaucracy's decision to step back on COVID enforcement was prudent. But you can't get any kind of useful analysis from NPR - much less their Headlines department. By now, you'd think folks on Hexbear would know better.
Oh well... Live and learn.
I didn't fall for it because I was too busy downloading over 50 cookbooks from libgen and skimming through them :gigachad:
Seriously though, I just try to keep in mind that :amerikkka: is pure evil and thet our government and media will always lie about those they designate as enemies
In my mild defense I’m generally mad at China’s new covid non-policy and with the last few decisions they’ve made it did seem plausible
“I was angry, so you can’t blame me for slurping the propaganda juice. It wasn’t real but the scariest part is that it could have been…”
Ooy, be nice to comrades
Yes, and also, this was a case of not reading past a false headline posted in bad faith by a wrecker. All propaganda is based on a grain of truth, but we have to dig a little deeper than that sometimes