China has had 85,915 total cases ever

  • quartz242 [she/her]M
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    4 years ago

    I was talking to someone who had swallowed the wuhan flu thing, showed them that covid actually originated in Barcelona and then showed the success that China had with covid and they just kept saying that the CCP hides the real numbers so I'm like yea so does the U.S and they said no that's different and I asked how and they said it's to keep people from panicking and stopping consuming and I just stared at them.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      it's not quite as cut and dried as started in Barcelona afaik, there was a sample hit in Barcelona, and also hits in early 2019 in Italy and Brazil, but everything is being peer reviewed still I guess:

      https://www.darkdaily.com/studies-finding-remnants-of-sars-cov-2-in-sewage-suggest-covid-19-may-not-have-originated-at-wuhan-market-some-scientists-dispute-the-findings/

      but it makes blaming China a lot sillier

      • gammison [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        It's highly likely those studies are gonna be retracted tbh. Covid appearing months before in highly dense areas without causing spikes in deaths or pneumonia really doesn't make sense. It's more likely they found fragments of another coronavirus.

    • spectre [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      China could fake their coronavirus numbers, but they can't fake import or economic production numbers. 1-2 years from now (I guess less, now), we will be able to see for sure. I think I saw a headline back in June that VW was still getting the same or greater amount of orders from the Chinese market.