Chinese Province Accidentally Releases Staggering Real COVID-19 Death Numbers

[Kamaji]

Chinese Province Accidentally Releases Staggering Real COVID-19 Death Numbers

By Bonchie
July 20, 2023

If you were to look at the “official” statistics put out by China (and endorsed by the corrupt World Health Organization), what you’d see is a claim that only 121,536 have died of COVID-19 over the course of the entire pandemic. Further, the communist nation claims that its people have only contracted 99,296,816 total cases. While that may seem like a lot, it’s actually a very low percentage when you consider China has 1.4 billion people.

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In other words, the “official” numbers are absolutely laughable. They are so far off of what is even possible that you’d think the Chinese would have pumped them up a bit more to make them seem realistic.

Instead, a relentless censorship campaign was instituted. As early as March 2020, it was clear CCP officials were lying about the real impact, with leaked pictures of overwhelmed mortuaries directly counting the government narrative. Now, an accidental release in one of the nation’s provinces is providing a good baseline for what the real number of COVID deaths is.

Official data from China offered a rare, but brief, glimpse of the true toll of Covid, indicating that nearly as many people may have died from the virus in a single province earlier this year as Beijing has said died in the mainland during the entire pandemic.

The data was deleted from a provincial government website just days after it was published on Thursday. But epidemiologists who reviewed a cached version of the information said it was the latest indication that the country’s official tally is a vast undercount.

The number of cremations in the eastern province of Zhejiang rose to 171,000 in the first quarter of this year, the website said. That was 72,000 more cremations, a roughly 70 percent increase, than had been reported in the same period last year.

What these numbers correspond with is the end of China’s so-called “zero COVID policy.” That’s important to note because the press is falling into the propaganda trap of reporting this rise in deaths as correlating with the lifting of lockdowns. What’s more likely is that these levels of excess deaths have been happening the entire pandemic. That would place the number of dead even higher than the death totals being extrapolated from this accidental data release in Zhejiang province.

So what is that number?

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Source:  https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/07/20/chinese-province-accidentally-releases-staggering-real-covid-19-death-numbers-n779132

[PeteS in CA]

The major city in Zhejiang is Hangzhou (old-style "Hangchow"), and the province borders Shanghai, which is its own metro area province. Shanghai and the cities around it are a ginormous industrial area.

China started lying about the disease that came to be called Covid when it became recognizable in November and December 2019. China withheld information of its existence until 12/30 or 12/31, then withheld the virus' DNA sequence until mid January 2020, and then denied that human-human transmission was happening until January 20, 2020. China's Covid numbers - cases and deaths - have been ludicrously absurd from the day they admitted it existed, and were belied by their initial shutdown of the whole country, and since by years of repeated shutdowns of entire cities and regions. Hello! You don't shut down a country or a city for a disease that is statistically insignificant!