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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 legont on Tuesday June 16 2020, @02:20AM (3 children)
What are we going to say once the US death tools hits a million? On annual, probably.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday June 16 2020, @02:54PM (2 children)
Hopefully, not turn into a communist dictatorship, because this horrible virus is going around killing 4% or less of the people infected. You dislike Trump now? How would you like dictator Trump, for life? For all of the problems with our current system, we've got plenty of worse options to choose from. Anarchy, Dictatorship, Tribalism, et al.
https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form-of-government/ [winstonchurchill.org]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Troll) by legont on Tuesday June 16 2020, @03:02PM
My dislike of Trump is orders of magnitude less than my hate of Washington swamp in general and Clinton's gang in particular. Over the last three decades they methodically destroyed the country. The core - while middle class men - were hit especially hard. Not to say that black men got it much easier.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by fustakrakich on Tuesday June 16 2020, @04:34PM
Ah, but the corollary, "The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." -- Uncertain if he really said that, but the subject is incomplete without it.
I still prefer focus on our own domestic liars more than those of foreign adversaries that we can't do anything about
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..