“Why China’s selective Covid-19 data adds up to public distrust” | Josephine Ma, SCMP

More on the issue I raised yesterday — China’s nonsense Covid data. Why do it? Why be so patently wrong? When you could be more accurate and you get found out when you aren’t? Maybe the entropy of the bureaucracy? We’ve always hidden data from the masses; we always will.

By the way, this concealing of data and information goes all the way back to the beginnings of the pandemic. When news of the first cases was suppressed, doctors punished for exchanging information. Even though China was a signatory to requirements by the WHO for early reporting of new pathogens. A requirement mandated after he 2002 SARS epidemic, also originated in South China.