China lies about everything. All public stats are cooked. There is no free press to question these absurd numbers, no whistleblower laws respected. Their leade

China lies about everything. All public stats are cooked. There is no free press to question these absurd numbers, no whistleblower laws respected. Their leaders have never ever cared about the lives of individual citizens. Xu’s hero, Mao, boasted that he would sacrifice as many innocent lives as he saw fit to reach his goals. The 5,000 number is laughable and meant only to keep Xi from executing party members, which he would certainly do if they told him anything approximating fact. Eventually you will learn that way more than 5,000 people, mostly senior citizens, died from starvation alone during the recent months-long lockdown in Shanghai.