Of course, what do you expect from a totalitarian communist regime - the China Flu

From Vice:

Here's How China Is Rewriting the History of the Coronavirus Pandemic to Make Itself the Hero
At midnight on Friday, China closed its borders to the rest of the world as it tries to stop a resurgence of the coronavirus.

The move was the culmination of a months-long PR and disinformation campaign waged by the Chinese government to rewrite the history of a pandemic that has spread to almost every corner of the planet, killed more than 34,000 people, and infected almost three-quarters of a million.

China initially ignored the outbreak that first surfaced in Wuhan in early December, silencing doctors who tried to raise the alarm before eventually enacting a draconian and restrictive lockdown that impacted 50 million people.

But the Communist Party of China (CCP) is now seeking to portray itself not as the country that allowed the coronavirus to spread unchecked for weeks but as the country that has defeated the virus and is now on hand to save the rest of the world.

It's called Propaganda and Disinformation. For those teetering on the edge of belief, there is always Gaslighting. The State must be preserved. The State must rule and The Narrative must be preserved. I still find it amazing that in this day and age, some people still consider this to be the preferred form of government. The funny thing though is that if you talk to them, they never ever want to be the farmer or the factory worker - never want to be a member of the Proletariat.  They always want to be in the Elite, the Nomenklatura. Sorry but you are most definitely NOT better than me.

What these people do is not useful work - something that the COVID-19 is delineating in today's society - it is sad that we had to have a pandemic to wake people up but it is good that this is the outcome. Do not get me going on Universities these days...