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that's what i was laughing at this morning. Trump is correct, though quite bold to just say that. wonder what updated info exists. gonna break it down in 2 sections, China's claim and evidence we're aware of.

China's claim:
China was claiming about 3100 people total yesterday, saying about 2/3 of those were from Wuhan. by now i think everyone agrees this isn't just a lie but it's a drastically underplayed lie. China's saying Wuhan was 50% higher on deaths and about 3800, though as a whole the country still has <5000.

Known evidence:
Trump is likely using the info the UK is. i don't know who's heading what but i'm sure it's a bunch of independent investigations too. Daily Mail leaked the info late last month and said that, according to scientific advisers, they're off by a factor of 15 to 40 times. giving credit to that story is that a day or two after that report we got info about how US intelligence believes China's massively downplaying numbers, though they didn't give specifics. due to the timing though i give it credit for being true. before this we had a leak by Epoch Times that was 2.6-52x but nobody else could back the numbers up, the range was way too wide, and while they've been mostly reliable and break good info before others, they're also heavily anti-China. that report's notable for having specific instances of daily tallies that were lied about. the 15-40x number is more recent and more reliable, so i'd go with that until further info's released.

to corroborate the evidence: around the same time period that happened there was an update on the number of urns Wuhan got: estimated to being over 40,000. a single location got 5000, another had said they'd been getting 3500 for at least 2 days. China was saying they only had 2500 Wuhan deaths at the time. there's 8 locations so figure if each is 5k, 40k+. this all matches up well with the stuff back in January regarding funeral homes/cremations. when you do the math you get something right at the low end so it makes sense for Wuhan.

...now everywhere else, who knows how many lies are in that. would imagine that's why the range is so wide still. but the short of it? even with the new totals, add a 0 and multiply by 1-4.

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