Fake Pandemic Hoax
Those China numbers…
Cut to the chase. Things are dire in America. As I write, America has surpassed China for number of dead. As I predicted four days ago.
But the quarter of a million infected figure is not there. I’m watching the figures remain high and increasing, but not at the exponential rate I predicted. Something is slowing the rate of increase, and that something is certainly the growing number of lockdown and isolation orders in place.
Not enough to stop the infection growing. That needs 90% compliance, nation-wide, and America is not there yet, and probably won’t be. Other nations have better government policies in place, and America, frankly, is a mess of varying messages.
My basic message, that China, with less information, less warning, and way more people managed to identify, plan, and implement the procedures necessary to slow, stop, and cap the infection. As the graph shows, the Covid-19 virus has essentially come to a complete stop in China.
In America, it is still growing, and the national government is predicting some truly horrific numbers. I’m seeing nothing but chaotic, uncoordinated, contradictory policies in place, and consequently limited compliance. That sort of mixed messaging is going to prove fatal to a small city’s worth of Americans. And Don Trump thinks that’s a good thing.
But can we trust the Chinese?
I’m hearing whispers that the Chinese numbers may not be accurate. Certainly, they were less than forthcoming with reliable information as the epidemic began, and in fact, punished doctors for coming forward and blowing the whistle.
Social media is alive with rumours based on numbers of cremation urns, testing regimes, and anecdotal sources, all saying that the Chinese numbers can’t be trusted.
Remember the Apollo 11 moon landing? Well, obviously I don’t, but I do remember websites and TV shows pushing the idea that it was a hoax, and it was all filmed on a sound stage in Hollywood.
Rubbish. Plain and simple. The then Soviet Union was also engaged in a competition to explore the moon, and were paying close attention to the American lunar missions.
They could track the spacecraft, intercept the transmissions — not a terribly difficult feat; the Kettering schoolboys did this and more — and if the spacecraft had not been in the right places (like on the lunar surface) with two-way voice transmissions live from the moon, then the Russians would have blown the whistle loudly.
America monitors Chinese affairs very closely. If the Chinese were having a rough time of it, way beyond the government reports — and the American results — Don Trump would be the first to bang on about it.
The usual suspects
Every time there’s some global geopolitical news story, there are also trolls spreading rumours, driving wedges, pushing memes based on somebody’s uncle, or a doctor in an un-named hospital, or a Nigerian astronaut marooned in orbit or something hard to trace.
Why should Covid-19 be exempt from such spurious twaddle?
Trust me. No, trust reliable sources such as the BBC, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera and so on. If these reputable media outlets aren’t reporting doubts on Chinese figures, then most likely there aren’t any. It’s not as if Covid-19 got its name because it was a story buried on page 19, now is it? A juicy scandal is front page news.
Not fodder for social media trolls.
Britni
Britni Pepper writes for Kindle Direct Publishing. She runs a blog where she reviews erotica, and rambles on about this and that. She may be reached on Twitter and Facebook.
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