[boringg]

Sorry - you so far off base here.

There has been ample reporting about China in the western media and none of your conspiracy related thought process is translating to anything that's happening in the West. If anything its promoting the narrative that the Western response to the pandemic was highly successful.

[apostacy]

What I said stands.

I never said that our media does not criticize China. Of course they do. But they tiptoe around criticizing China in a way which could expose our own hypocracy.

Western media has been pushing the narrative that any level of force by the government is justified, because the pandemic is such an existential threat. They are reluctant to report that the Chinese government is then using excessive force, because it would make people question whether our government over-reacted as well.

[sidlls]

It's more likely that they're just not interested in "hard hitting" news of that sort. It's more profitable to push a narrative that keeps things simmering for the news cycles. Our media aren't controlled centrally: that's just not how propaganda dissemination through the media works in the West (it exists, it's just different).

[boringg]

I understand your comment and thought thread but it has no muscle to it. I don't think any Western country would be at all concerned about your line of thinking because it isn't an issue. The magnitude of the difference between the approaches of Zero Covid China compared to Western countries is quite significant to the point that is almost incomparable.

The other part is that western media doesn't have many sources inside China that can properly report with confidence what is happening without losing their asset.

[Workaccount2]

Last time I checked the US was never welding doors shut on apartment buildings to keep people from going out.