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China is on Earth, not in some other solar system. If their excess deaths per capita were a fraction of the numbers in the West, there would be no way to hide

by mike_h 4y ago

China is on Earth, not in some other solar system. If their excess deaths per capita were a fraction of the numbers in the West, there would be no way to hide it.

ipaddr 4y ago
The easiest way to hide it is to report death was caused for another reason. If someone like yourself is going to take their numbers at face value they have already hidden it.
- mike_h 4y ago
  Ok, so conspiracy theory logic.
  - hiptobecubic 4y ago
    The CCP hiding deaths is not new at all. Covid is one of many at this point.
- mkbgw 4y ago
  That's not how excess death calculations work. They would have to not report the deaths entirely, not just misattribute them.
  - samatman 4y ago
    Can you explain in detail what would be stopping them? I'm not seeing it.
- HWR_14 4y ago
  Whether out of malice or just the difficulty of testing corpses with inadequate supplies s, I thought it was widely assumed all countries were underreporting in at least 2020 and probably further. Therefore, everyone serious looked at excess deaths.
charlieyu1 4y ago
Hong Kong have 1.1 million reported cases while the whole China have only 160K. Yes it is totally believable
j16sdiz 4y ago
2020: missing / human trafficking in China is ~1million per year https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/human-trafficking-02092022061641.html https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/human-trafficking-0209202... 2000: ~ 40million unregistered woman in china https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830941/
jhbadger 4y ago
People are still arguing how many people died in the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961. Some say as low as 15 million others as high as 50 million. It's easy to hide millions of deaths in authoritarian regimes.
gruez 4y ago
> If their excess deaths per capita were a fraction of the numbers in the West, there would be no way to hide it. Why not? Taiwan only had 854 covid deaths, or 0.00335%. Hiding that from official statistics doesn't seem too hard.

by mike_h 4y ago

China is on Earth, not in some other solar system. If their excess deaths per capita were a fraction of the numbers in the West, there would be no way to hide it.

ipaddr 4y ago

The easiest way to hide it is to report death was caused for another reason. If someone like yourself is going to take their numbers at face value they have already hidden it.

mike_h 4y ago
Ok, so conspiracy theory logic.
- hiptobecubic 4y ago
  The CCP hiding deaths is not new at all. Covid is one of many at this point.
mkbgw 4y ago
That's not how excess death calculations work. They would have to not report the deaths entirely, not just misattribute them.
- samatman 4y ago
  Can you explain in detail what would be stopping them? I'm not seeing it.
HWR_14 4y ago
Whether out of malice or just the difficulty of testing corpses with inadequate supplies s, I thought it was widely assumed all countries were underreporting in at least 2020 and probably further. Therefore, everyone serious looked at excess deaths.

charlieyu1 4y ago

Hong Kong have 1.1 million reported cases while the whole China have only 160K. Yes it is totally believable

j16sdiz 4y ago

2020: missing / human trafficking in China is ~1million per year https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/human-trafficking-02092022061641.html https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/human-trafficking-0209202... 2000: ~ 40million unregistered woman in china https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830941/

jhbadger 4y ago

People are still arguing how many people died in the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961. Some say as low as 15 million others as high as 50 million. It's easy to hide millions of deaths in authoritarian regimes.

gruez 4y ago

> If their excess deaths per capita were a fraction of the numbers in the West, there would be no way to hide it. Why not? Taiwan only had 854 covid deaths, or 0.00335%. Hiding that from official statistics doesn't seem too hard.