I do hope you are not basing your conclusions on Lukashenka's self reporting
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Replying to @varjag
No, I'm basing it on the apparent lack of mass casualties. From the Belarus official data it looks like they got official instructions to keep daily cases under 1000.
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Replying to @Pinboard
There are many thousands of casualties. Noone knows for sure of the exact number, as they are misreported in every possible way as a policy. The infection is rampant, probably in hundreds of thousands at this point.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Of course I can't. I haven't done field work, just know how it is between my relatives and friends back there. But can you point for any evidence that Belarus is doing better than the West by any metric though, other than Lukashenko's own figures?
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Replying to @varjag
The absence of mass hospitalizations and deaths that it would not be possible to hide in an age of social media, plus the pattern being the same across all of Eastern Europe for some poorly understood reason. I get the skepticism but burden of proof is on showing mass casualties
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Replying to @Pinboard
There are mass hospitalisations though. And it's not something unknown there. The rest of Eastern Europe shut down *hard* in advance, there is no comparison.
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My mom's in cancer ward now near Minsk on reconstructive surgery. Both her boxmates recovered from COVID, so their families. Borisov infection ward is full and other hospitals were converted too to cope with COVID rates.
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Replying to @varjag
I understand your argument (and Poland, which is the country I know, was also super fishy about its data). If you can point me to stuff that's beyond anecdotal, now or later, I will be grateful. And my most sincere wishes for your mother's health.
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By denying anecdotal evidence in authoritarian countries, you run the risk of simply swallowing propganda.
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Please note that I'm not denying it.
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