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remember what the USSR did with chernobyl? They constantly downplayed the numbers to save face. I suspect that's what they're doing here. No 100% guarantee but

• Balgair 7y ago
  The 1918 flu killed ~0.01% of Philadelphia in one winter. The Liberty Loan Parade on September 28th was a major event in the pandemic. Health officials knew that the flu was in Philadelphia and had warned City Officials about it in very clear terms. The parade continued on and 3 days later, people started showing up to hospitals, just as predicted. The morgue was rated for 36 bodies. Hundreds came in every day that winter. They had priests operating backhoes to bury the dead, as the workers were too sick to do so. The entire city was quarantined. Still, newspapers published day after day that everything was fine, despite the obituaries becoming an ever thickening section. People knew and it wasn't hard to guess. The Soviets did it with Chernobyl, the Chinese are doing it right now, and the US did it nearly 100 years ago. These are human things, not specific to any country.