I replied this on your post too:

Alright let's do this.

@trincowski

Also, if the Corona virus is as dangerous as some tell us, if

My OP was not about how dangerous the virus was, but how the response to the virus is percieved.

@some909

He doesn't believe it - otherwise he wouldn't make that fake video

I specifically say in my post to perceive the videos how you will, and mention several times in comments and the post that this is because it's impossible to get accurate and truthful sources in a country where the only news is state-owned and controlled.

I go on to explain that as a result, we have to sift through the conspiracies and lies to try to get the best picture we can.

I also say that I agree some of the videos are BS but that is not the point. The point is the narrative that these videos are giving; many of which are simply recorded videos of things going on.

The woman, for example, who for all I know is from HK or Taiwan, is still speaking truth, and her emotional performance is something that is very real going on in the country.

People do support independence here, people are suppressed and attacked by the legal system, and lawyers are silenced for speaking out for their clients.

Chinese people do eat horrendous things - that doesn't make them the only country. The infamous bat eating girl I think was in Indonesia. I had my fair share of disturbing dishes handed to me in Vietnam too. But we know Yulin dog festival exists, we know bats and pangolins and others exist in China -that's exactly why the government has just put a permanent ban on such practices.

The mahjong tables, I don't know why you say are funny. This was indeed a rule implemented to prevent social gatherings. Is that fake news? Prove it. I've seen at least a dozen videos going around of a similar nature.

And finally, the videos were sped up, as I explained, because YouTube only allows 15 minutes max. I'm under the assumption that most people will not be trying to listen to the Chinese so why would I try to distort it when I could just turn down the volume?

I think you were looking at the video too much at face value. I could have made it clearer (though I did point it out, as I said) that this was not to spread fear and in fact I've been openly against the idea of racist sentiment that's going around the world.

I also think the government response is highly extreme and much of it based on a lack of education/information.

None of my criticisms appear to be controversial by the West or the Chinese with the exception, presumably, of the overtly pro-CCP party members trolling the internet.

But I welcome you to dismantle things further with the above points in mind.

P.S. I'm a music history & composition teacher

If you wanted, I could have posted the numerous videos of Chinese people eating their own shit, or my own friend eating raw donkey testicles in Anhui, or indeed, the other videos of Chinese people eating live mice which is, by the way, a dish oft eaten in Guangdong, China. They call it 三叫鼠.

There's plenty of options. You're obsessing over one detail which doesn't at all derail the narrative that I'm trying to share from the Chinese - not created by me.

As I said, I might not have done a perfect job but that's exactly why I wrote the paragraph immediately above the video