I talked to my mom about how China dealt with the pandemic and she said they were just lying. I asked her why they would do this massive, total lockdown if they were just gonna lie about it, why wouldn't they just let people die like the US does if they were just gonna lie about the virus.

I asked her "Do you have any reason to believe China is lying except 'China bad'?" and she admitted that that was her only reason. Didn't change her mind though.