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>If there was a government cover-up and people were still getting sick then we wouldn't see people putting themselves at risk to go to a music festival.

If the coverup was effective why wouldn’t they? We know the Chinese government is extremely good at propagandizing their own citizens.

[FooBarWidget]

The Chinese government is not "extremely good" at propagandizing their own citizen. Many Chinese know that there's censorship, and they take their media with a grain of salt. Chinese propaganda is also extremely crude, simple and straightforward. If you watch Chinese propaganda for a while, you will notice this. Especially many of those who have been overseas know that western propaganda is much, much more sophisticated and harder to detect compared to Chinese propaganda.