I think it is very likely the official numbers are false, but 1M people and 50k dead?
Coronavirus 2020 and the fall of the CCP
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I think it is very likely the official numbers are false, but 1M people and 50k dead?
That was one of the big problems/mysteries of the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1917-18, whenever.
It hit the young and the healthy harder which is counter-intuitive.
The possible explanations I have read center around the exposure to previous viruses. That is to say, the possibility that the older folks have have been exposed to previous viruses that were sufficiently similar to the spanish flu virus to offer full or partial immunity - but the young people were not.
Even in the old days, people knew that having cowpox provided partial immunity to smallpox. I mean, way back, like in the very late 1700's.
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They say its based on the number of bodies being burned in the crematoriums.
The Spanish Flu had a huge variability in mortality over different ethnicities. People of Samoan ancestry had mortality up near 80%.
What is fascinating is that the Spanish Flu is thought to have originated in the United States.
Oh, yes of course. The native groups always get hit the hardest. Entire villages of hundreds of people were wiped out in Alaska. But that is/was true of their first expose of measles, chickenpox and all the european white man diseases upon first exposure. The entire native population of north america was reduced by 80% or so with a very short period of time.
As an aside trivia, the semi-intact spanish flu virus with its chromosomes was retrieved from a tribal burial ground in western Alaska, where it people had and still are buried below the permafrost. The recovered virus was deactivated but they were still able to piece it together enough to do gene sequencing.
Lots of stuff preverved in the permafrost. Hope the thawing does not unleash anything that is unwelcome. Could happen.
And how are they getting those numbers accurately?
You count the bodybags or number of times the oven on/off switch is flipped?
Right. How does a Chinese businessman who has been exiled in the US do this, again?
Well he better not be shorting US equities...