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Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19

posted by Fnord666 on Monday June 15 2020, @07:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the burning-facts dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Tuesday June 16 2020, @01:51PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 16 2020, @01:51PM (#1008617) Journal

    and if you've been following criticism of the numbers from Western democracies, we find that everybody has been lying about their numbers.

    How much have they been lying about their numbers? Are they all secretly running their crematoriums full time?

    until journalists catch them at it.

    Which happens a lot less often in China than it does in democracies around the world. When there is this breezy a disregard for the quality and quantity of the lies (and as in this case, the institutions that have some effect on reducing the degree and harm of those lies), that indicates to me that the lying doesn't really matter to you. There's a lot of these moral equivalences in the overall discussion. It's time we stopped that.

    China lied in the crucial early phase of a disease that has killed over 400k people. But those lies blurred in all the other lies you don't really care about either. So you decided to blather about stripmining the Earth instead.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @09:10PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @09:10PM (#1008846)

    Which happens a lot less often in China than it does in democracies around the world.

    Which part? The lying or the being caught at lying?