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China has a history of embellishing and fabricating all sorts of published economic numbers. The number of funeral urns being collected is raising questions abo
by tcbawo 7y ago
China has a history of embellishing and fabricating all sorts of published economic numbers.
The number of funeral urns being collected is raising questions about the true toll (https://time.com/5811222/wuhan-coronavirus-death-toll/ https://time.com/5811222/wuhan-coronavirus-death-toll/).
Democratic countries can skew their ICU or death statistics, but only so far.
- gentleman11 7y agoIirc, trump has censorship powers under the emergency act. If he really wants business to reopen after Easter, I hope journalists are going to be ready for some fact checking
- tomp 7y agoBy "censorship", do you mean no numbers or fake numbers?
- yaus831 7y agoThere is one possible explanation: China annual death rate is around 7.3 per 1000. In a city with 11 millions people (wuhan), there would be 6600 death per month without COVID 19.