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>What could they possibly have gained from that?

Global power shifts to their favor by slowing down democratic economies, sacrificing parts of their own population and economy in the short term. As a collectivist dictatorship tracking every move of its population a pandemic is easier to handle.

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Isn’t it also becoming more and more suspicious that they appear to literally be almost the best country in the world at controlling it. We are talking multiple orders of magnitude better. I struggle to understand how exactly.

People fear consequences for not following quarantine state orders much more I guess. They are just more used to abide an omnipotent state, meaning no public backlash or counter movements like in the west.

If we're basing that claim on the numbers they're providing on deaths/cases, I don't believe it for a second.

Except even if they report fake numbers if there was actually significant outbreaks we would hear about it still. It would leak. Something is super odd.

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