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Hong Kong's Fishy Covid-19 Numbers

An increasingly captive media allows government to get away with it

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Aug 11, 2020
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Hong Kong is supposed to be an open city but the government is using exaggeration of the threats of Covid-19 to suppress not merely political activism but normal movement.

The daily scaremongering about disease and death is eagerly reported by media increasingly unwilling to ask questions. The horror story is that another 80 or more cases are reported d…

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