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steve  ·  1480 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Coronavirus: pathogen could have been spreading in humans for years, study says

    Counterpoint: 21 Million Fewer Cellphone Users in China May Suggest a High CCP Virus Death Toll

I've heard this mentioned several times.... but I've been leery of this kind of headline. feels way too tinfoil hat worthy.





kleinbl00  ·  1480 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Epoch Times is a Falun Gong website. The Falun Gong will do whatever they can to hasten the downfall of China which...

China was executing Falun Gong and harvesting their organs years before they decided to butcher Uyghurs. So I mean they have a point.

steve  ·  1480 days ago  ·  link  ·  

even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while, though, right? I mean - so much of their stuff is propaganda... it's tough to take much of the rest seriously.

kleinbl00  ·  1480 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah people made mad fun of 'em for incorporating organ harvesting into their Shen Yun stuff

And then the UN came out and said "well, there's more organs than listed donors so..."

One of the most ironic things about all this coronavirus stuff is everyone is taking Chinese facts and statistics as gospel fucking truth when just three months ago we all knew 95% of it was purest bullshit.

steve  ·  1480 days ago  ·  link  ·  

look - I agree - the Chinese stats are NO WAY accurate. China will try to save face at every opportunity.

on one end of the spectrum you have "The Chinese government is being transparent" and on the other end is "The Epoch Times is reporiting 23 million people missing and crematoriums burning 40,000 people per day".

Somewhere in between them is the truth - and my bet is - we'll never really know.

kleinbl00  ·  1480 days ago  ·  link  ·  

100%.