The Chinese vaccine MAY not be that effective.

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I imagine they probably rushed it through to try to turn a PR disaster (their shoddy regulation exacerbated the pandemic a hundredfold) into a PR victory (they saved us with the vaccine).
Honestly,. if I hadn't read the thread title I might've thought you meant the UK government, though they no longer seem particularly bothered about PR either.
 
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Speculating that they wouldn't notice 450 million people dying is racist.
Well no, actually. For the first part Chinese isn't a race, its a nationality. For second the infamously repressive and revisionist CCP would absolutely lie to the world and its people about the true number of dead, and enforce that lie, and anyone who speaks out gets a fatal number of bad boy points. Tiananmen Square Massacre not only being illegal to mention, but simply Western propaganda and it never happened and no you didn't lose an uncle there, you never had an uncle. Never underestimate the control the CCP has over its people, and the length they will go to hide the truth and "edit" the social understanding of what's real.
 
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Honestly,. if I hadn't read the thread title I might've thought you meant the UK government, though they no longer seem particularly bothered about PR either.
Oh, they're also trying to put a fresh spin on utter disaster, as well. A party which presided over a decade of cuts to the health service, and a government/ cabinet that presided over the worst death toll in Europe, trying to spin the successful vaccine rollout as Tory efficiency... despite the fact that it was managed and organised by the NHS, quite without the cabinet's help.

Particularly grotesque was Johnson claiming that the Oxford/ Astrazeneca vaccine was an example of how "greed" and "capitalism" work for us... even though the project was approximately 99% publicly-funded, not a "capitalist" endeavour.
 

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For second the infamously repressive and revisionist CCP would absolutely lie to the world and its people about the true number of dead, and enforce that lie, and anyone who speaks out gets a fatal number of bad boy points. Tiananmen Square Massacre not only being illegal to mention, but simply Western propaganda and it never happened and no you didn't lose an uncle there, you never had an uncle. Never underestimate the control the CCP has over its people, and the length they will go to hide the truth and "edit" the social understanding of what's real.
Uhrm, right, but 450 million is an utterly insane speculation. It would be utterly impossible to hide a toll of that magnitude, considering that we still have tourists, students and professionals travelling to and from China. Not to mention the fact that a drop of a third of the population would cause total economic and societal collapse.

(To be clear, obviously the toll isn't 4,500 either; that's an inane lie the government spouted).
 

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Yes, actually.
Its not. You're simply using the word incorrectly, with no respect or understanding of the actual definition. Might as well call it Panzoism or Titanism. I mean its not either of those either, but if you're going to be dead wrong about something, might as well be cute or clever about it.
 

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You're adamant and determined to be wrong, and I respect that. Doesn't make you any less wrong, but at least you know you're wrong.
Thank you for your incorrect input. Have a nice wrong.
Your argument has a greater volume of words. In every other respect, it is worse.
 

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Does anyone else think SilentPony just didn't actually multiply 4,500 by 100,000? 450 million secret deaths is absurd. You don't have to be a fan of the Chinese government to recognise that the amount of deaths they are keeping secret is much lower than that.
 

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Your argument has a greater volume of words. In every other respect, it is worse.
I mean: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial group
And Chinese isn't a race, its a nationality, and nothin I said was prejudicial, discriminatory or antagonistic. So...yeah, 0/10 for you, please see me after class.
 
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Whatever, just wash your hands.
Does anyone else think SilentPony just didn't actually multiply 4,500 by 100,000? 450 million secret deaths is absurd. You don't have to be a fan of the Chinese government to recognise that the amount of deaths they are keeping secret is much lower than that.
Outside of news reports did you notice the 600 thousand deaths here in the states? Or if your not in the states, the number of deaths from where you are? Outside of someone you know dying, probably not. The earth could lose 20% of its human population (over a billion people) and depending on where you are, you could not see any difference.
 

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See I disagree. This is China we're talking about. They've never shown as inclination towards protecting their population, and have always just blunt forced bodies their way through things. Lie about the numbers, not just to the world, but to the population. Your grandparents didn't die of Covid, its just been a very bad flu season and was their time. Tens of millions of cell phones didn't shut off in early 2020 because their users died, everyone just took a me-cation to the country side. Covid didn't start at the Covid research center in Wuhan, a pangolin had sex with a bat and traveled to a US military base in New Jersey. The Covid vaccine is super effective and you're totally inoculated, you just had a bad cold for 8 weeks.
China has an official death toll of 4,500 for the same reason North Korea doesn't have a single official case, and its not thanks to a robust health care system.
We knew things were worse than China said they were early on, we'd know if the Chinese were just letting the virus rip through the population, China is not nearly as locked down as North Korea. I'm pretty sure we had accounts and pictures of the draconian lockdown they were doing IIRC (I don't feel like googling that). If you smother the virus like that, you can very much limit infections afterward as you can actually do contact tracing then.

Does anyone else think SilentPony just didn't actually multiply 4,500 by 100,000? 450 million secret deaths is absurd. You don't have to be a fan of the Chinese government to recognise that the amount of deaths they are keeping secret is much lower than that.
With a virus that has a fatality rate of 0.23%, 450 million deaths is impossible. Even say assuming China did let the virus rip, literally every person in China got infected, and their healthcare got overwhelmed resulting in a very high 1% fatality rate because people couldn't get care, that equals to 14 million deaths.