Police state? Dun think so... China is a police state, and their rate of infections was way lower than ours.
That's funny... whistleblowers INSIDE China tell a completely different story.
In Wuhan and surrounding Hubei Province a couple million cell phones have dropped off the network and yet to come back on.
By all non-governmental accounts, there was mass carnage in China.
Any and all doctors in clinical settings that tried to speak publicly about what they were seeing in China were arrested or have "disappeared".
China and the Chinese people are an amazing people with an unparalleled rich history of culture, art and science.
The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) is NOT representative of the sum of who and what China is or was, and to suggest they are honest about anything is a complete refutation of all history and academy about the CCP.