No proof of life or wellbeing will be enough, because they'll go to greater and greater lengths to explain it away, e.g. unseen Chinese officials controlling her every move.

I also had to laugh at this National Post article calling the IOC's video call with her a 'publiciy stunt'. They literally asked for this to prove she's still alive! The 'publicty stunt' wouldn't have happened without all this nonsense.

It's also ironic that the whole situation started because Peng Shuai *didn't* do an anti-China publicity stunt (after the initial social media post). If she's not available to do that at all times, then clearly she's been disappeared. She couldn't possibly want a bit of privacy, without the gutter press following her every move.

Jeez, that's an awful story.

The whole "soldiering on at work while ill" thing is so damaging. You could almost sympathize if it was a worker with little choice (not if they have CHUD brainworms and spread it deliberately), but for the boss to do it (and react the way she did), with a catastrophic result like this, is especially callous.

inb4 she attacks the USSR's abortion laws for being *too* permissive (or an old post of hers arguing something similar is dug up and she claims she was hacked).

Lol, she did a "Soviet Yugoslavia" tweet.

This is more than a month old, but I missed it at the time.

It appeared that the authors had run entire paragraphs from press releases and websites about ivermectin and Covid-19 through a thesaurus to change key words. “Humorously, this led to them changing ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome’ to ‘extreme intense respiratory syndrome’ on one occasion,” Lawrence said.

Heh.

“The authors claimed to have done the study only on 18-80 year olds, but at least three patients in the dataset were under 18,” Lawrence said.

“The authors claimed they conducted the study between the 8th of June and 20th of September 2020, however most of the patients who died were admitted into hospital and died before the 8th of June according to the raw data. The data was also terribly formatted, and includes one patient who left hospital on the non-existent date of 31/06/2020.”

There were other concerns.

“In their paper, the authors claim that four out of 100 patients died in their standard treatment group for mild and moderate Covid-19,” Lawrence said. “According to the original data, the number was 0, the same as the ivermectin treatment group. In their ivermectin treatment group for severe Covid-19, the authors claim two patients died, but the number in their raw data is four.”

[...]

Brown created a comprehensive document uncovering numerous data errors, discrepancies and concerns, which he provided to the Guardian. According to his findings the authors had clearly repeated data between patients.

“The main error is that at least 79 of the patient records are obvious clones of other records,” Brown told the Guardian. “It’s certainly the hardest to explain away as innocent error, especially since the clones aren’t even pure copies. There are signs that they have tried to change one or two fields to make them look more natural.”

[...]

“Because the Elgazzar study is so large, and so massively positive – showing a 90% reduction in mortality – it hugely skews the evidence in favour of ivermectin,” Meyerowitz-Katz said.

“If you remove this one study from the scientific literature, suddenly there are very few positive randomised control trials of ivermectin for Covid-19. Indeed, if you get rid of just this research, most meta-analyses that have found positive results would have their conclusions entirely reversed.”

Kyle Sheldrick, a Sydney doctor and researcher, also independently raised concerns about the paper. He found numbers the authors provided for several standard deviations – a measure of variation in a group of data points – mentioned in tables in the paper were “mathematically impossible” given the range of numbers provided in the same table.

Sheldrick said the completeness of data was further evidence suggesting possible fabrication, noting that in real-world conditions, this was almost impossible. He also identified the duplication of patient deaths and data.

Not great.

Interesting analysis, thanks.

All of this is assuming this is just Daddy handing them money and not actually borrowing from a bank, in which case interest costs are going to take another big bite out of them.

The article says the dad took a loan out:

Ishaan and Aanya, for example, have over 97 processors, which their father Raj, a former investment banker, helped fund by taking out a loan.

What's in the spoiler tags? I'm guessing something to do with the vaccines.

If the same were said of Israel, it would be (rightly) condemned. Also, shock horror, there are a couple of anti-Semites saying exactly that (except specifically about Jews) in the replies. These right-wing grifters always attract the worst people, but they don't really care.

Or redefining poverty to such absurdly low standards that they can claim to have "eliminated it"

Lol, like this? It's the UN that does that, and they have to include China, because without their gains, poverty has actually increased.

Before going in, I'm expecting reflections. It's always reflections. Also realistic hair.

I remember shadows being a tad annoying too when I did some 3D graphics programming, but I was probably just crap. Collision detection and the camera are always fun too.

So uh, basically everything lol. Edit: turns out that's actually the title.

So first up they say doors. Makes sense since you've got portal culling and shit like that.

Lol, the projection.

To entertain it, if the media were exactly the same, you wouldn't hear any of this "evidence". China is "the enemy" in the current situation, so they have to put the boot in.

Also, they're forgetting that there already is an example of this: the 1918 flu, the earliest documented case being in Kansas. As we all know, tens of millions died and Spain got the blame for it. I am unaware what the discourse was like back then, but I suspect the US came out pretty well (reputationally). It's hard to say how it would have been with social media, although without the mainstream media putting the boot in, it wouldn't have had much to feed off.

The president has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?

The libs will use this whole episode to defend future Western interventions. "Look how bad things can get without US involvement. We should intervene more!" Of course, they forget that the region is so fucked because of Western interventions, going back to at least WWI.

Lol, Jaster is the main character in Rogue Galaxy.

"Yeah, but one day I might become a millionaire!"

Lol at believing it's the "tankies" that have a disdain for the arts and culture.

The CHUDs may endlessly go on about the "superiority" of western culture, but when push comes to shove, they'll scrap anything that's unnecessary (read the arts and culture), especially if it negatively affects those "metrpolitan elites" that they think populate the arts.

Also, there was no art before about 1700. To square that circle they'll just say shit like "capitalism = freedom" or "capitalism = trade" so they can claim it has existed since the year dot, rather than a few hundred years in reality.

Racist Fox News comments? Must be the Russians.

Russiagate allows libs to absolve themselves - or any Americans or the US as a whole - of anything or delegitimize anyone/anything inconvenient to their narrative. That's the main reason it's being pushed so hard, after the Dems saw the utility of it with Trump.

Another good one:

In China, if you even discuss something against the nation or leadership, you can be taken to jail over National Security.

The irony.

I saw this article posted on another forum the other day, and the poster said, "No wonder China is passing us."

The replies were all:

Lol, you really think China could possibly be any better? Common sense suggests it's clearly worse because I say so.

Then when actual figures are posted, the excuses come out. China's figures are fake, their construction quality is awful, their homes are the size of shoeboxes, etc. Basically any negative they can think of must be true, because it's common sense, duh.

@Mardoniush pointed out that the US figures actually are bullshit though.

Looks like The Independent picked the 'story' up, as the media like to do with Twitter beefs / controversy since they're desperate for clicks.

Bryant met with Alvaro Uribe in 2009. Says he "took him to task" lol.

Oh shit, it gets worse: when asked about Uribe running for a third term a month prior to the above meeting, Bryant said, "Neutral. It doesn't bother me, if that's what the people want". Took him to task my arse.

"I would never vote for Fujimori obviously" :doubt:

But that's authoritarianism! And they're clearly lying! And the US is inflating its figures for... reasons! And China started it to kill us all!

The same person: It's all a hoax! It's just the flu! The vaccine is going to sterilize us all! My opinions are totally consistent.

Your appointment to FEMA should be finalized within the week.