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China began stockpiling PPE months before Covid outbreak (www.telegraph.co.uk)
posted 3 years ago by NoEyesNoGroin 3 years ago by NoEyesNoGroin +30 / -0
China ‘began stockpiling PPE months before Covid outbreak’
China also started to buy up global PPE stocks in Europe, Australia and the US around the same time, experts say
www.telegraph.co.uk
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– WeedleTLiar 23 points 3 years ago +23 / -0

Paywall, lame...

Anywho, remember whrn Canada donated all our PPE emergency stockpiles to China? And our chief public health officer (Tam) told us that wearing masks all the time was "dangerous" and wouldn't make a difference? And then we bought a bunch of PPE from China and it was defective, but Tam told us to wear masks all the time anyway? And then we totally stopped the spread?

Good times...

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– GloboHomoErectus 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

Remember when Germany seized all the PPE on it's way to Sweden from the 3M factory?

And now this winter they want OUR electricity? Fuck em!

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– ailurus 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

This has been known for years.

Article from April 2020 about how Chinese reps bought up Australian PPE in bulk and sent it back home.

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– NoEyesNoGroin [S] 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

What you linked happened in Dec 2019 or early 2020.

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– ailurus 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Sorry, I meant April 2020, typed the date wrong

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– NoEyesNoGroin [S] 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Yes, and this article is about things happening in mid-2019.

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– deleted 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0
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– Assassin47 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

They did succeed in wiping out the Hong Kong freedom protests, which was probably one of the goals.

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– dagthegnome 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Yes, but it won't matter. The Chinese system is going still going to collapse. Ours too, probably, although it won't be as severe here.

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– KeeperOfTheGate 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

China DOES have a demographic time bomb, but it's not nearly that crazy. 600 million by 2050 would mean more than a 50% decrease in 30 years. That's pretty much impossible.

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– deleted 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0
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– KeeperOfTheGate 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

I don't dispute many of those individual facts. I think it highly likely China has overcounted (or more likely, deliberately misstated) their population by ~100 million. I agree it's highly likely China's population has been in slight decline for several years now.

The 2020 Chinese census claims a population of just over 1.4 billion. Let's say that was overstated by 200 million, and it's really 1.2 billion.

Let's also assume that the Chinese birth rate remains at record lows or even drops further (2021 seems to be the record low so far).

I think you should also assume that Chinese life expectancy will continue to increase (as it has been, and is), and that the Chinese government will force people to continue working into older age.

To hit a population of 600 million by 2050, in just 28 years, the population would have to drop by 21.5 million every single year.

Barring the extremely unlikely events you mention--major famine and major disease--that's pretty close to impossible. Even at the height of the great leap forward, China never saw that level of deaths due to famine or other government-related reasons.

So, my tl;dr, declining population yes, demographic bomb, yes, major problems ahead, yes, but 50% population loss in less than 30 years? No way.

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– norwegianwikin 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Either they did it intentionally, or they knew it was loose and they knowingly allowed it to spread to make sure everyone got funked.

And I still believe the videos of people being welded into their homes or collapsing in the street was a targeted psyop to get our governments to overreact.

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– Sneak_King 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Remember the Chinese doctors who turned jet black due to covid exposure?

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– Assassin47 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Remember the thousands of identical Twitter posts urging politicians around the world to do lockdowns?

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– deleted 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0
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– MattTheBlack 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

No shit. We knew this 4 years ago

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– NoEyesNoGroin [S] 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Shut the fuck up you drooling imbecile.

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