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2020-03-19 China-Japan-Koreas

China's coronavirus recovery is 'all fake,' whistleblowers and residents claim

h/t Instapundit
[Yahoo] - China's claims of how it's handling coronavirus recovery should be taken with more than a few grains of salt.

Even before COVID-19 became a global crisis, Chinese leaders had been criticized for their handling of the situation and lack of transparency about the disease's progression. Things now look like they're on the upswing, and businesses even appear to be headed back to work ‐ but whistleblowers and local officials tell Caixan that's just a carefully crafted ruse.

Beijing has spent much of the outbreak pushing districts to carry on business as usual, with some local governments subsidizing electricity costs and even installing mandatory productivity quotas. Zhejiang, a province east of the epicenter city of Wuhan, claimed as of Feb. 24 it had restored 98.6 percent of its pre-coronavirus work capacity.

But civil servants tell Caixan that businesses are actually faking these numbers. Beijing had started checking Zhejiang businesses' electricity consumption levels, so district officials ordered the companies to start leaving their lights and machinery on all day to drive the numbers up, one civil servant said. Businesses have reportedly falsified staff attendance logs as well ‐ they "would rather waste a small amount of money on power than irritate local officials," Caixan writes.

In Wuhan, officials have tried to make it appear that recovery efforts are going smoothly. But when "central leaders" personally survey disinfecting regimens and food delivery, local officials "make a special effort" for them and them alone, one resident told Caixan. And in a video circulating on social media, residents can be seen shouting at visiting leaders from the apartments where they're being quarantined ‐ "Fake, it's all fake." Read more at Caixan.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-19 07:40|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Didn't realize that taking Chinese communist party propaganda at face value was even an option.

Posted by Iblis 2020-03-19 11:17|| 2020-03-19 11:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Are air pollution numbers edging back up?

Posted by James 2020-03-19 11:54|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2020-03-19 11:54|| Front Page Top

#3 #2 It's de rigueur for the Western press.

Posted by charger 2020-03-19 12:38|| 2020-03-19 12:38|| Front Page Top

#4 What a surprise.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-03-19 12:41|| 2020-03-19 12:41|| Front Page Top

#5 I can't find my shocked face

Posted by DarthVader 2020-03-19 12:44|| 2020-03-19 12:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Sarah Hoyt no longer lends hers out - coronavirus you know.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-19 12:47|| 2020-03-19 12:47|| Front Page Top

#7 This also supports the 'hair on fire' narrative.

Posted by Bobby 2020-03-19 15:14|| 2020-03-19 15:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Are the crematoriums still running balls out? Mass burials?

Posted by gorb 2020-03-19 15:14|| 2020-03-19 15:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Does their propaganda machine have a chink in its armor?

Oh wait...

Posted by charger 2020-03-19 15:18|| 2020-03-19 15:18|| Front Page Top

#10 ISWYDT

Posted by Frank G 2020-03-19 15:56|| 2020-03-19 15:56|| Front Page Top

#11 I always felt the news from China was kind of slanted...

Posted by Raj 2020-03-19 19:32|| 2020-03-19 19:32|| Front Page Top

#12 *OUCH*

Posted by Frank G 2020-03-19 19:52|| 2020-03-19 19:52|| Front Page Top

#13 smacks of yellow journalism
(hides from hurled eggs and tomatoes)

Posted by Lex 2020-03-19 22:08|| 2020-03-19 22:08|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ To your room, and weld it shut!

Posted by Marilyn Elmeque9472 2020-03-19 23:14|| 2020-03-19 23:14|| Front Page Top