[vkou]

I understand why you would think this might be the case - but please consider the logistical difficulties of such a vast conspiracy.

There's over a billion people in China, with an extensive diaspora that keeps in touch with family back home. The world is connected, and we aren't living in 1929 anymore (Where your entire extended family could have starved to death, and you wouldn't hear about it for a decade.)

What exactly do you think is happening there? They've lifted the lockdowns - and if the virus were still circulating through the community, it should have infected tens of millions of people by now. Do you think that millions of people are getting sick and dying, and their overseas relatives, who are frequently in touch with them, don't know about it?

They've tried to suppress COVID information, when only thousands of people were infected in January, and... Everybody still knew about it.

Do you think they are somehow orders of magnitude more successful at doing so in September, while secretly having millions and tens of millions of cases?

Or is the more plausible explanation that they probably don't have millions and tens of millions of cases?

Or, alternatively, do you think that they only have tens and hundreds of thousands of cases (Few enough to suppress information on), and somehow, despite the lockdowns being lifted, they aren't ballooning into millions?

[hurrdurr2]

My Chinese friends who live in multiple different cities are all telling me the pandemic is pretty much over where they are located. Businesses are basically back to normal. Even mask wearing is not as widespread as it used to be out in the open (still required in most indoor spaces). I guess they must all be CCP stooges and are lying to me.

People thinks the CCP is some omnipotent organization and can suppress any and all information. If that's the case, then how do we even know about the Uyghur detention camps?