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Are we then going to start talking about how the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreaks were massively under-reported?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic#Comparisons_...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22738893-estimated-global-mo...

I don't see any of the scares or complaints of under-reporting from back then. So what's the difference here, the fact that the disease originated from China? Seems pretty racist to me.

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Criticism of the Chinese government is not racism. They have a history of controlling the flow of information both in and out of the country; any suggestion they are controlling the flow of information about this virus is rooted in established historical facts.

I find people saying things like "criticism of the Chinese government is not racism" is akin to things like "I am not racist because I have black friends".

Anywho, I gave you an actual link of a pubmed article about the H1N1 2009 outbreak being under-reported, yet the criticism is once again about China controlling information flow. Where is the criticism of under-reporting from the US and Mexico H1N1 outbreak from 2009 and 2010 and controlling the information flow? I don't remember any of that, do you?

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