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Comment by azurezyq | Hacker News Reader

While I'm not sure why Chinese government is not sharing the virus, I really don't like the way the article is written.

The entire article is about guessing the reasons and developing a conspiracy (even the relation to trade war). No response so far from the official channel of Chinese government.

Also for this section:

>> The Chinese government has refused to share clinical data from infected patients, according to scientists[1], and claims to have all but eradicated H7N9 through a single poultry vaccination campaign.

[1]: Citation needed.

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I don't see what's conspiratorial when it identifies several recent examples of governments doing exactly what the scientists they've interviewed speculate is happening here. If we followed your standard, the Chinese government would be able to get away with anything without scrutiny indefinitely simply by refusing to respond to inquiries.

The only conspiracy here is, that you can be sure to find someone downplaying the issue every time something regarding China comes up here.

This steps into nationalistic flamewar, which is not allowed here. Both sides routinely accuse each other of dominating HN. Such comments add no information and provoke worse from others. Indeed, they're just another move in the flamewar.

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I am posting anonymously here because of all the toxicity of this comment. Take away "Chinese" from his argument and he still has an argument. Your comment on the other hand, is just throwing your emotions around. I suspect other commenters downvote him for the same reason. I find this every time an article about China comes up. Its infuriating because there is not legitimate discussion going on. It simply a downvoting war.

The Chinese government has proven time and again that it's supremely untrustworthy. That alone gives the article some credence.

No government is "trustworthy". Singling out the one you don't like seems dodgy.

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Please don't take HN further into flamewar with grand nationalistic rhetoric. We're interested in specifics here, not loud generics.

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