>If there was a government cover-up and people were still getting sick then we wouldn't see people putting themselves at risk to go to a music festival.
If the coverup was effective why wouldn’t they? We know the Chinese government is extremely good at propagandizing their own citizens.
The Chinese government is not "extremely good" at propagandizing their own citizen. Many Chinese know that there's censorship, and they take their media with a grain of salt. Chinese propaganda is also extremely crude, simple and straightforward. If you watch Chinese propaganda for a while, you will notice this. Especially many of those who have been overseas know that western propaganda is much, much more sophisticated and harder to detect compared to Chinese propaganda.
If the coverup was effective why wouldn’t they? We know the Chinese government is extremely good at propagandizing their own citizens.