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China, Poland, Turkey, Turkmenistan...

All of these countries had troubling human rights issues pre-COVID.



Poland had HR issues?


Absolutely.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/27...

> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki spoke by phone Sunday and agreed to open a dialogue to avoid further diplomatic fallout following Poland’s initial approval of a law making it a criminal offense to mention Polish complicity in crimes committed during the Holocaust.

I believe they backtracked a bit on that one after the outcry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_ideology-free_zone

> An "LGBT-free zone" (Polish: Strefa wolna od LGBT) also referred to as "LGBT free zone" (Polish: Strefa wolna od LGBT) refers to some regions of Poland which have declared themselves unwelcoming of an alleged "LGBT ideology." As of June 2020, some 100 municipalities (including five voivodships), encompassing about a third of the country, declared themselves "LGBT-free zones".


I’m sorry, do you seriously consider these issues to be as bad as the human rights situation in China?


You asked "Poland had HR issues?", not "Poland had HR issues of exactly equal magnitude to China?"

The highlighted issues make it clear Poland was willing to infringe on speech/expression rights even without the excuse of COVID.


Are there countries which don’t have HR issues?


How did you know that China had human rights issues?


Yup. Iceland and generally nordic states, Canada.


Are you from any of those countries? If not, how do you know?


So you basically asked a question but with the assumption that the answer is unknowable.

Great show of good faith there /s.




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