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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 cykros on Tuesday June 16 2020, @05:36PM
Considering how soft he's been on China the whole time, I don't suspect you'll need to worry.
All that stimulus and money printing we just engaged in effectively made that debt to China significantly lower, thanks to inflation. Just don't call it currency manipulation.
At the end of the day, that debt we owe them keeps them in check anyway, as they wouldn't want anything to happen to the country that owes them the most (just look at how they and Russia defend little old Nicolas Maduro in
Venezuela, over a MUCH smaller debt).