I believe China is trying to make this disease seem worse than it is because it allows them to lock up whomever they want, disappear them and claim they died of corona.
China wants to purge its society of protesters and other undesirables, other countries don’t have comparable medical systems. There was cell phone data of a Chinese waiting room wherein bodybags lying on dirty linen were placed across the chairs of the waiting room. THese patients had supposedly died of Corona - if China wanted to stop the spread of Coronavirus in that region, they wouldn’t spread contamination so willingly. Mind you, China will treat their elites differently; you won’t see bodies on waiting room chairs in elite hospitals.
Best to use data that Trump’s coronavirus task force collects, and the medical analysis of his experts (they know China lies). Here’s the White House Coronavirus updates page for anyone interested (you can sign up for update emails)
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
Italy and South Korea in on this as well?
On the contrary. China is making the numbers less and less because they keep changing the conditions on who to include that caught Covid-19.(They have moved the goalposts at least 5 or 6 times)
Also, upon death they will decide what you died from. If you had Covid-19 and heart problems, for example, when you died then the official cause of death is heart problems.
You also have the unknown number of people who died at home simply because there was no hospital bed for them. Or others who caught it and died when China was denying anything was wrong.
“I believe China is trying to make this disease seem worse than it is because it allows them to lock up whomever they want, disappear them and claim they died of corona.”
Interesting thought. But here’s the thing... China already has the power to ‘disappear’ anybody they want. Sure there are limits. But if they felt they were ‘limited’ in their power anywhere and they needed to use the virus as ‘cover’ that place would be Hong Kong.
That's my tin foil theory.
I believe China is trying to make this disease seem worse than it is because it allows them to lock up whomever they want, disappear them and claim they died of corona.
Maybe.
I still have the nagging suspicion that the virus escaped from that lab in Wuhan and the Chinese are scrambling to hide the fact and contain the damage.
The contamination you mention is because their response is overwhelmed and like any place else, they are not some monolithic paragons of correct behavior. They are probably worse than most.
Because they are such a closed and censored society, I guess we will never really know.