How China Is Rewriting the History of the Pandemic to Make Itself the Hero

vice.com

9 pointsilamont7 comments

Article contains plenty of disinfo itself : 'China tried to hide the outbreak for months' ( not true ).

'The Netherlands claim 50% of their China supplied tests are faulty'.

I am Dutch and know nothing about faulty Chinese tests. There were faulty masks though.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52092395

Thousands of testing kits and medical masks are below standard or defective, according to authorities in Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands.

Yes, and below the first paragraph, it actually says NL rejected masks, not tests.

> Article contains plenty of disinfo itself : 'China tried to hide the outbreak for months' ( not true ).

https://nypost.com/2020/02/29/china-officials-knew-of-corona... (NY Post: China officials knew of coronavirus in December, ordered cover-up, report says)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/china-con... (Bloomberg: China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says)

How is this 'months'.

Concealed extent : there is a diffuse line between hiding extent and not testing enough. The latter is happening for sure in a lot of western countries, including my own.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com