Multiple sources both on other sites and here by native Chinese speakers
Please point me to the *confirmation* — I have in fact already seen posts (some might have been yours?) that the word used was “dead” not “infected” ...but I have not seen confirmation of that COUNT of dead.
Not trolling, not looking for a flame war.
I understand in a fluid situation as this, hard data is difficult to come by. But there are errors of complacency (”oh just some internet nut or panic monger”) as well as riling people up for a laugh...I want to form my own impression of how reliable the figure of 90,000 is.
> The nurse’s Doctor CONFIRMED statement is that 90,000 DEAD.
I too have read those reports on Twitter, I don’t want to believe it but it’s the only thing that adds up. China wouldn’t be bulldozing all exits from these cities unless it were something like this. If people were just getting sick and the death rate was even twice the normal flu, or three times, no way they would take such action. My thinking is the death toll is enormous, and once the truth gets out, panic. Hope I’m wrong.
If there were 90,000 dead the PRC government could not control the population left alive.
90,000 dead in a city of 11 million and a 2.5% would mean (If I put the decimal right) 3,600,000 cases or about 1/3 of the population 11 million in Wuhan. (Note if you make the morality rate higher the number of infected people gets worse and the problem gets worse. Including the issues that most of the medical staff would have died.
If that was the case you’d see then nonsymptomatic people fighting with the guards at checkpoints to leave. Indeed, the guards would have probably abandoned the checkpoints. OR - You’d see the army locking the place down and letting everyone die - maybe napalming the city.
90,000 cases can be believed 90,000 deaths, at this point is simply unbelievable because the math doesn’t work. FWIW - my niece is a nurse in a hospital in Wuhan.