https://www.ccn.com/alleged-tencent-leak-suggests-coronavirus-death-toll-spiraling-to-25000/
This has additional links to other videos: There have been multiple reports of Wuhan officials cremating deceased coronavirus victims before they could be added to the official death toll. The Wall Street Journal noted that the coronavirus numbers coming out of China are fishy. Twitter is flooded with gloomy (albeit unverified) videos of corpses piling up, police reloading their guns, hoards of officials being deployed to contain a solo case of infection. You wouldn’t expect to see things like this if this was just your average flu. https://au.news.yahoo.com/china-cremates-bodies-in-secret-as-coronavirus-patients-spike-070222348.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/relatives-wonder-whether-pneumonia-deaths-were-tied-to-coronavirus-11579915630 https://twitter.com/bitcoinization/status/1225058233871753217 https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1223689848642514944 https://twitter.com/maree_jun/status/1223894959951990784 Caijing’s (one of the most reputable outlets in China) report was quickly censored: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.is%2FObawP All in all, I don't believe it's 2.1% The actions China are taking doesn't seem suited to a mere 2% or 3% fatality rate. On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 3:55 PM Jonathan Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > > But you are saying it can't be true because it would have leaked out... > But it HAS leaked out! > > Also, there is a difference between tryig to cover up a single item of > news .vs covering up a statistic which is kinda easy to cover up. > > And the number of dead is hardly huge by the numbers involved in the > polulations of Chinese cities. > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 10:18 AM Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I wrote: > > > >> > >> I am pretty sure news of it would leak out. Many dreadful false rumors are > >> spreading. News that is both dreadful and true would leak out, I think. > > > > > > Just now, Chinese and world mass media reported: > > > > A doctor who was among the first to warn about the coronavirus outbreak, > > only to be silenced by the police, died on Friday after himself becoming > > infected with the virus, the hospital treating him reported. > > > > The Wuhan City Central Hospital said at 3:48 a.m. Friday that the doctor, > > Li Wenliang, had just died. “We deeply regret and mourn this,” it said on > > the Chinese social media site Weibo. > > > > Just hours earlier, the hospital had said it was still fighting to save Dr. > > Li, 34. > > > > > > People all over China were following this story. > > > > That is appalling yet true news. It came out right away. I am sure the > > authorities wish they could make it disappear, but they could not. > > > > Other recent examples include the photo of the dead man on the street, and > > the photo in today's news of the makeshift mass quarantine areas in > > stadiums and meeting halls, which Chinese people are comparing to the > > photos of arm camp treatment centers in the U.S. in 1918. See: > > > > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/world/asia/coronavirus-china.html > > > > This is bad news that is not being repressed. Not successfully repressed, > > in any case. Quote: > > > > Photographs taken inside the stadium showed narrow rows of simple beds > > separated only by desks and chairs typically used in classrooms. Some > > comments on Chinese social media compared the scenes to those from the > > Spanish flu in 1918. > > > > According to a widely shared post on Weibo, a popular social media site, > > “conditions were very poor” at an exhibition center that had been converted > > into a quarantine facility. There were power failures and electric blankets > > could not be turned on, the user wrote, citing a relative who had been > > taken there, saying that people had to “shiver in their sleep.” > >
