Posted on 03/21/2020 6:24:26 AM PDT by grimalkin
The Communist Party of China triumphantly proclaimed on Thursday that it had logged its first day without a single domestic Wuhan coronavirus infection, earning the applause of gullible mainstream media outlets and its puppets at the World Health Organization (WHO).
Those celebrating, in addition to disregarding the clear signs that the claim may not be true – like reports of Wuhan hospitals turning away residents with coronavirus symptoms, or a suspicious increase in “pneumonia” death certificates at funeral homes not counted as coronavirus – have failed to note that China made a significant change in how it counted coronavirus cases in February.
That month, the National Health Commission ordered doctors not to count individuals confirmed to be infected with the Wuhan coronavirus, but exhibiting no or “mild” symptoms, in the official count of coronavirus cases.
“The changes to the classification of asymptomatic coronavirus cases emerged on Jan. 29, in a set of guidance from China’s National Health Commission,” the New York Times reported in mid-February. “Health officials said that they would reclassify patients who had tested positive for the new coronavirus but did not have symptoms, and take them out of the total count of confirmed cases.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Anyone defending China now is an enemy of America and should be treated as such.
Communist China and the China News Network lied again?
Well, I am shocked.
Trump knows Chine is cheating the counts, but the media goes along with the claims. It is sad.
No testee, no sickee
In the last 60 days, 7 million cell subscribers of China Mobile have suddenly gone off line and services stopped. This is not normal churn.....make what you will of the COVID numbers out of China in relation to the sudden loss of 7 million subscribers....(China Mobile is the only official service in China, so it’s not like the mainland Chinese had anywhere else to subscribe).
If Chinee man dead, no virus.
Paging Poland...
They define “mild” as not dead.
Hospitalized, no problem. That was the underlying problem. Dead, no problem as that was the underlying problem.
The Chinese government decided pretending coronavirus doesn’t exist is a better strategy than continuing a futile attempt to contain it. They may not be wrong about that.
Buried in the referenced NYTimes article:
The changes to the classification of asymptomatic coronavirus cases emerged on Jan. 29, in a set of guidance from China’s National Health Commission. The agency said that it would no longer count patients who had tested positive for the coronavirus but did not display symptoms as “confirmed cases.” Instead, those patients would be counted separately, as “positive diagnosis” patients, and would become confirmed only if they began showing symptoms.
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So the cases were counted, but not as confirmed cases. We don’t know if this is still the policy, or what effect this had, because all Breitbart cares about is whipping people up emotionally and getting clicks.
We found no new cases.
Interpretation: (We stopped testing)
Ignoring the “mild cases” overstates the mortality rate by deliberately understating the denominator. Does that indicate that there has been a psyop aspect to China’s role in this debacle.
Concur. This was a bioweapon.
Bush Romney Ryan Chamber of commerce Rino league of greedy scumbags and cowards
Really. Nothing else?
We should too.........
If someone tests positive, why make another category? How is that data being interpreted and presented? Also, consider the ChiCom track record...
China monitors the internet, and knows that the relatively sudden and dramatic drop in coronavirus cases in China has fueled suspicion about bioweaponization. That’s why this news was released.
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