May be just incompetence or willful ignorance. People die, they don’t know why.
I wont call Putin’s data false but it is suspect.
Is phony reporting to mislead the public about the number of actual cases any worse than media-driven hysteria among nitwits in the public who empty the shelves of the grocery stores?
They have a very low population density, which seems to be a very important factor in how many people get the virus.
Vlad turned all the lions and tigers loose out of the zoo to make people stay inside, is what I heard.
Of course Russia is covering it up.
If you don't test, only the very sick become known.
Absolutely shameful that there aren’t more deaths in Russia! Putin’s fault for sure!
Or perhaps their societal standards don’t promote virus spreading? But no, let’s instead claim cover up. Pathetic.
First and foremost, Putin HAS NOT ordered the shuttering of Churches.
And the Russian Orthodox Hierarchs have not cowered in fear like many of their counterparts worldwide but especially in North America.
The “medicine of immortality” must be dispensed as often as possible.
How about the very low numbers of Saudi Arabia & UAE’s?
Oh please.
It’s Russia, not the USSR.
i normally would agree with this. However, there are 3 things arguing against this.
First, there is no particular value in lying. Unlike China, nobody is blaming Russia, and they would get nothing but sympathy if they had cases.
Second, they were not a place where a lot of chinese travel or work, nor do they have large numbers of people from spain or italy coming; their tourism is more summer, so they didn’t have an influx of international travelers.
Third, they are sending major help to Italy, when EU countries who are having CV cases did not. Including their military. i can’t imagine Russia risking their military in a foreign country if they were already experiencing a major outbreak in their own country.
Also, Russia would probably use military, and we track their military movements, and I would suspect we’d have public reports now of major movements to any area having a big breakout of CV cases.
I don’t trust Russia either, but didn’t they close their border fairly soon after the outbreak was revealed? (the racists)
My mom thinks it’s a conspiracy because “no one in Russia or NK has it”.
Yes, could be cover-up, but could also be no one wants to go there and no one can leave.
I know some Russians, and “social distancing” is something of a norm in their culture.
They are also not a globalist, open-borders, country. When they shut down travelers from someplace like China, they mean it.
One reason Russia’s numbers are lower is they don’t have to deal with left wing political correctness from the local government officials the way Milan, London and NYC does.
Another is that its pretty cold there in Jan/Feb and people tend to stay home. Lets see what happens when the weather gets warmer.
Bring Out Your DeadComunist and former comunists are stellar examples...
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
The false positive rate was 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.
Captain Obvious ping please.
Oh wait.....my bad.
Questions of a Cover-Up
Maybe not In the U.S. so far only 400 have died any questions about a made up numbers danger is higher than a cover up.
