I think they're real. A 4ch threads commented on the details of the video and I found them convincing. Medical kidnappings definitely happened, as well as hazmat-suit guys walking with guns out. Mathematically, the numbers of death & the num of videos seemed to match.
I never talked publicly about it, but I just assumed a lot of the footage out of Wuhan in late January was either staged or taken from some other event — all the people collapsing on the street, medical kidnappings, etc. Still not entirely sure how to update on this.https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1238935900391755776 …
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Yeah, I never saw any confirmation but they sure seem believable *now.* At the time it seemed like the media coverage was way too cavalier for any of that to be likely happening to the extent that it was, in fact, actually happening
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Worried our new governor might not handle the outbreak well at the state level. He's done an outstanding job. Never occurred to me so many major & minor pro-Trump influencers would continue to "media-driven panic" the virus this long. I get being wary of media bias, but DANG.
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I also assumed to some degree that perhaps in a country of 1.4bn or a city of 11mn people there would be enough examples of people randomly collapsing from cardiac arrest, stroke, seizure etc. but we'd of course never hear of it ...
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... only with the epidemic suddenly these things would be spread worldwide and so there would be a huge bias. Any even of someone collapsing might get filmed, spread worldwide & blamed on the virus. So I was doubtful about this until ...
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Yeah, not sure. I do recall at least one US case that presented with fainting (middle school teacher fainted and subsequently tested positive)
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I thought the videos of people collapsing on the streets were fake / staged / otherwise misleading. Now, after seeing this thread, I'm afraid they were at least partly true:https://twitter.com/aliostad/status/1239676989730062338?s=20 …
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