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Many of these claims are from low-quality sources. For the specific point about funerals, you cite a single number in a single funeral home on a single day and
by totalZero 7y ago
Many of these claims are from low-quality sources. For the specific point about funerals, you cite a single number in a single funeral home on a single day and try to extrapolate from that.
China banned funerals and mandated cremations, and my guess is that they did so for the purpose of masking the death toll. We would be foolish to trust China's words rather than its actions, and its actions indicate that the death toll was sufficient to justify a substantial shutdown of an entire industrial region of the country.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/china-virus-funeral-order-fuels-upset-death-toll-exceeds-sars-200209010139644.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/china-virus-funeral-o...
"The order also prohibits funeral ceremonies for those who have died from the virus, potentially cutting off the grieving process and any religious ceremony for families and entire communities who are mourning the loss of their loved ones, and there is little sign such an arrangement is even necessary."
- echelon 7y ago> you cite a single number in a single funeral home on a single day and try to extrapolate from that. I did. Thank you for calling me out on that. I still find it interesting that the funeral home employees were (allegedly--again, this is Falun Gong) instructed not to talk to anyone about cremation volume and that the numbers provided were an order of magnitude lower than what this individual cited. > China banned funerals and mandated cremations, and my guess is that they did so for the purpose of masking the death toll. I was thinking it could be more innocuous: preventing bodies with high viral titers that are shedding from being hugged by uninfected loved ones. But you could also be right.