• deft@lemmy.wtf
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    Well it isn’t my job to teach you history. China has a full history of information control especially around healthcare. A culture around denying suicide and a political interest in showing themselves to be better than they actually are.

    If you choose to embrace a lack of information as truth, that is you.

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      All countries have a political interest in showing themselves as better, though. I’m aware enough of China’s history to know that your allegations are just that, allegations.

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        They do but most countries have a means of tracking national suicide rates. China intentionally doesn’t and this is a repeated pattern with the country’s healthcare reporting.

        We simply can’t even argue about it because the data is unavailable. So this claim is also unverifiable.

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          So in other words, you don’t have any proof, and are using the lack of proof as evidence. That’s not how proof works.

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            That’s silly.

            In other words the data is incomplete from the top so any further discussion is speculation at best.

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                Nope I’m noticing a discrepancy in data and pointing it out. What China does is hide information and the rest of you are embracing a speculation because again, the data isn’t available.