Just imagine how easy it was for Pharaoh to clamp down on inconvenient news. When the only mass media were expensive papyrus and carvings, he could easily cover up inconvenient episodes like the Ten Plagues.
s this the cover-up of the century?
The Covid-19 death toll in the UK is now above 4,300, that of America more than 8,000 – but apparently China, where the disease ran rampant for weeks before authorities acted, got away with only 3,300 casualties.
Given that the country allowed 5 million people to leave Wuhan, the city where the outbreak began, before imposing lockdown on January 23rd, that low figure defies belief, even accounting for China’s rapid shutdown once the virus had become established.
Anecdotal evidence points to far higher numbers, including unsubstantiated reports of mass deliveries of urns to funeral homes in Wuhan. But in a measure of China’s almost total control of information, there’s not much more that Western governments and media can do to prove those suspicions.
Whatever the true numbers, a new report by London’s Henry Jackson Society (HJS) says that China could be liable for damages in the trillions of dollars based on broken treaty obligations by failure to truthfully acknowledge the scale of the pandemic.
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