12-02-2020 20:18 via ottawacitizen.com

Glavin: Why we can't believe China on coronavirus

Roughly 60 million people are now locked down in the most extensive and draconian quarantine in human history. China’s economy has come to a standstill. Factories are silent. Trains sit idle in the stations. In Wuhan, the teeming city at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, the streets are strangely empty. State censors work 'round the clock to scrub the Internet of independent reporting. Citizen journalists are disappearing without a trace. Nobody knows quite what to believe, or who
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