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China is furious that environmental readings have exposed lies around COVID-19 deaths. The data collected shows a clear mismatch from the information released by the Chinese government about how many people died and at what time. This is a very sensitive subject with China engaging in a cold trade war with Australia over the origins of COVID-19 while providing support to affected smallers countries as calls are made for China to pay billions in penalties due to their coverup.
Before Beijing's crackdown, China's bureaucracy had been conducting business as usual – analysing, assessing and reporting on everything about its citizenry. The researchers from Washington University and Ohio State University say they have tracked down this early government data and combined it with reports in state-controlled and social media.
Among this data was the activities of eight crematories in Wuhan. By January 25 these were inexplicably operating around the clock.
Based on such sources, the researchers argue the total number of infections and fatalities before February was at least ten times that of the official figure announced by Beijing.
[...] The study tracked the sale [of] funeral urns to verify these estimates. In the January-March period during which the crematoriums were operating at peak levels, some 36,000 had been distributed.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday June 15 2020, @08:36PM (4 children)
Do you really think the US is going to war with China? Why?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @10:50PM (1 child)
Is USA the only country devastated by chink flu? I don't think the US will need to do anything. Russia is right next door to China.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday June 15 2020, @11:23PM
Russia's not going to fight a war with China either. They couldn't even if they wanted to.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday June 18 2020, @12:24AM (1 child)
Depends on whether China is bluffing on Taiwan. During the trade negotiations we tried to bring up Taiwan countryhood as a concession the CCP could make, Xi said any such talk by a foreign power is an act of war. Australia and Japan are pushing for Taiwan to rejoin the WHO, US congress/senate working on a resolution extending a defence pact to Taiwan after seeing what happened with HK.
Vietnam has 5 million troops on their border and are furious with China over fishing rights. India/Chinese relations are not doing well with a possible conflict brewing over terratory (including some recent deaths). Chinese delegation goes to NK and now NK has destroyed liason offices in the DMZ and has begun moving military into the area (how much is yet unknown), and cut off diplomatic ties with SK. The CCP said the renewed wave up north of SARS was caused by Russian tourists, and they said the new wave in Beijing was caused by Norwegen salmon. Australia said the SARS actually popped up in August and had to be lab made (no suggestion of bioweapon, likely escaped vaccine research).
Any one of the local conflicts can spark a larger conflict. India/China disbute escalation. Vietnam sinking Chinese sinking vessels like the Chinese sink theirs. NK/SK DMZ dispute. HK crackdown. Taiwan soverignty. The whole worlds a pile of dry hay and people have lit matches everywhere.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday June 18 2020, @01:16AM
I thought that number sounded big. [wikipedia.org] It turns out they don't have that many in their military:
None of those other countries are making war on China, because China would crash their economy tomorrow.
India is the only exception, and they're not doing any more than posturing over some mountains they claim.