China Estimates Show Wuhan Death Toll Far Higher Than Official Figure
Mar 29, 2020
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- "The source said Wuhan saw 28,000 cremations in the space of a single month,"
- Wuhan resident Chen Yaohui told RFA that city officials have been handing out 3,000 yuan in "funeral allowances" to the families of the dead in exchange for their silence.
- Such an estimate would mean that 42,000 urns would be given out during that time.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/wuhan-deaths-03272020182846.html
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Estimates Show Wuhan Death Toll Far Higher Than Official Figure
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The bottom line is you can not expect others to do what you cannot do. People die without being diagnosed all over the world, including Seattle, France, Italy and Spain.
Seattle people die mid Feb without being diagnosed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-delays.html
Seniors were abandoned in Spain
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/24/820711855/spanish-military-finds-dead-bodies-and-seniors-completely-abandoned-in-care-home
Italy mayor claims actual death number is much higher.
https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/21/italian-mayor-claims-the-true-death-toll-from-covid-19-likely-to-be-much-higher
Numbers are not perfect but if you think 10x people die without leaving any trace, it is hard to justify. Unlike Americans, Chinese people have family to support them. They don’t disappear without trace easily.
At that point I just hope that once the virus crisis is over, all western countries take gradual steps to move all essential manufacturing back home.
I wouldn't be opposed either to a permanent travel ban from China until they stop acting like savages with their food and health practices.
Besides rhetorics, the real capitalists may move more manufacturing to China, China has already back to business, while the rest of world still in chaos. It's be safer to place manufacturing in China, than Vietam or Italy
The wall street and super rich determines how companies moving, it's not up to you nor me