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It'll be very, very interesting to see if Beijing contradicts the Hubei province's official figures. There has to be a war going on internally in Beijing between the camp that wants transparency and the bureaucrats who are trying to salvage the economy, "move along, nothing to see..."

If Hubei has gone rogue, someone has very big brass balls.

When I said watch what happens with this selective "return to work initiative" for businesses deemed critical to the internal supply chain? Well, it blew up. One example: A whole shift showed up to a chip fab operation, one worker became ill on the job, and now they've got 200 critical employees huddled together under quarantine in the plant cafeteria. They somehow organized getting quilts but there's apparently no food. May god help them.

Maybe that was the straw that broke the camel's back with the daily stats and the sudden and heretofore missing outbreak of honesty.

Note that even this apparently shocking increase in cases is probably an order of magnitude low, IMO only. It can't count the poor slobs sheltering in place at home and I'm guessing they are legion, given they'd only be forced into a quarantine facility if they sought treatment. And there's no treatment to be had anyway. Oxygen is gone. An ICU bed is a dream.

Things are not good in China.