How much can we trust the data coming from the American CDC?
Why exactly would you distrust China, besides racism?
Why exactly would you distrust China, besides racism?
A government that detains initial sources of ‘rumors’ of untreatable pneumonia should be trusted about as, say, a social network company governance that deletes non-proganda-aligned informational posts about spread of that pneumonia, or an election year government that reduced infectious disease control budgets and says nothing to see here move along.
Nothing to do with race.
Because, historically, they have not been trustworthy with this sort of thing?
Not trusting the Chinese government is way different than not trusting a Chinese person.
Just look at SARS for an example of where trusting the official information from China made for a terrible idea.
Your view of China is almost entirely defined by US media, owned by capitalists. Perhaps consider they have an incentive to lie.
The US also has a much smaller history of hiding facts and persecuting the Press.
There is also no democratic control of the people over the US press, it's privately owned by only a few. The press has an extremely long history of hiding and fabricating facts, particularly against anti-capitalists.
More importantly, there is no democratic control over production and distribution. It is almost all privately owned.
The US's history of brutality and manipulation is unmatched.
Now sure, the chinese government changed their tactic, but it would take a while for me, to trust them on anything.
I personally have trust that at least in the US, a whistleblower would speak out to media if the official announcement doesn't agree with the records s/he can see. Maybe this is also blind faith that the system still works in the US. Who knows if Trump has installed loyalists that deep, who will only report good news: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/26/johnny-mcent...