The World Suddenly Realizes China’s Covid Stats Are Totally Made Up

[GURPS]

The Morning Jolt, back on December 28, 2021: “When Will the Rest of the World Call Out China’s Insanely Implausible Covid-19 Statistics?”



Apparently, it took about a year. This morning’s New York Times:

Despite those assurances, China faces much uncertainty over how the coming months will play out. Information is opaque and unreliable, which will make it difficult to gauge Beijing’s handling of the coming wave of Covid infections. The government’s desire to save face after an embarrassing retreat from its hallmark pandemic policy will only muddy the picture. . . .
Some of China’s data stretches the boundaries of reason for a country with a population of 1.4 billion people. China said there had not been a single Covid-related death since it lifted pandemic restrictions six days ago. By comparison, the United States reported 469 Covid-related deaths on Tuesday alone.
Since the early months of the pandemic, virologists have raised questions about China’s official mortality figures, challenging the way that the country’s hospitals classify Covid deaths. Instead of including people who died after contracting Covid-19 in official data, as is the norm in other countries, Chinese hospitals typically attribute deaths to pre-existing or chronic illnesses, such as cancer or a heart condition, they said.
Underreporting Covid cases is not unique to China, but the country is especially opaque.

To hear the Chinese government tell it, its country ranks 98th in the world in total cases of Covid-19 recorded, with fewer cases than Oman, Armenia, Honduras, Qatar, Estonia, Cyprus, and Kuwait. Never mind that the Chinese population of 1.4 billion is the largest in the world, the virus originated in China, and many Chinese live in close quarters in big cities where social distancing is impossible. The government’s official figure of 369,000 or so total cases is about half that of Paraguay, one-third that of Cuba, one-quarter that of Norway, one-fifth that of Slovakia, and roughly one-tenth that of Romania.

The World Suddenly Realizes China’s Covid Stats Are Totally Made Up | National Review

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[Kyle]

Not sure what took the world so long.

 

[vraiblonde]

Since when did China become a bastion of credibility?

 

[herb749]

It seems countries are afraid to speak out against China because they do so much business with them.

 

[Kyle]

Since when did China become a bastion of credibility?

During the Fa-Fauci Dynasty.

 

[phreddyp]

Belt and road is a powerful incentive to keep their collective mouths shut!