My sympathies.
There are posters who think the flu is a conspiracy and like the common cold (if it even exists) and china is just using this as an excuse to establish centralized control. Or something. To hide the fact that their economy is in the doldrums. Or something. I can’t quite get the logic here. But there you have it.
And here I simply assume that they’re lowballing their numbers.
They have to understand the numbers. The apparent death rate (per WHO and others) is about 2 percent. But the thing that I call the real mortality rate (number dead vs. number who have already beaten it), as presented by other FReepers, is over 50%. Hopefully, that will be much lower in the States.