Re:Nobel laureate predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery
by arcticbull on Monday March 23, 2020 @12:02AM
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We have tons of non-China sources, and their death rate is low because of their overwhelmingly aggressive response and tactics, which were lauded by the WHO.
However, China lied about human transmissibility of the virus until Jan 20.
They lied about where the virus came from including lying that it was an American invention.
They also did not count pneumonia deaths caused by the virus: https://www.wsj.com/articles/relatives-wonder-whether-pneumo...
They have also kicked out american media so there are no independent fact checkers on the ground.
Their official death rate is also lower than every other country's.
Thus, the null hypothesis is that china is lying, like they always do. A claim that they are not lying would need to be supported by evidence. Otherwise this is just the fallacy of an appeal to authority.