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Why on Earth are you calling them “propaganda” videos, when China was trying to downplay the pandemic at the time?

See, this is one big reason we’re collectively dumb. Everyone and their big conspiracy theories.



Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. You escalated more than once in this thread. We're trying to go the opposite direction here!

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There hasn't been a single case reported in the West, of anyone dying instantly in the street of COVID-19. Ergo, videos filmed within China, allowed by the authorities to be viewed outside China, purporting to show this scenario, are the very definition of propaganda.


We also saw videos of sick people left to die in Chinese hospitals from their own phone recordings. Is that also propaganda?

And no, a video of something that isn’t what we thought it is, is not the definition of propaganda. Propaganda has a goal.

This video doesn’t match a single goal China has. If it does name it.


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