Posted on 03/24/2020 11:06:58 AM PDT by Helicondelta
The opacity of the Chinese Communist government obliges responsible outside observers to look for clues to the truth of the coronavirus epidemic, instead of merely repeating official information without question.
The official count from China is 3,277 fatalities from 81,171 infections as of Tuesday, but the Epoch Times noted the troubling disappearance of some 21 million cell phone accounts in China over the past three months – an unprecedented decline that hints at more fatalities than Beijing is prepared to admit.
It should be stated at the outset that we should not be forced to read tea leaves to figure out what really happened in China, especially in the virus epicenter of Hubei province and the city of Wuhan, where Chinese officials are currently making claims of zero new infections that no one seriously believes.
With that in mind, the Epoch Times thought it was a bit odd for 21 million Chinese cell phones to abruptly disappear, given that cell phone usage has been increasing constantly in China for years, and phones have been touted as an important tool for containing the coronavirus epidemic
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Didn’t pay their bill?...................
Dropped dead calls.
The Chinese government shut down cell phones in many areas because - well, you know how China is about information and communications. Those people “disappeared” because they were removed from phone access by the Chinese government.
3...2...1...until the crazies show up to proclaim this means 21 million dead since December...
Or rejecting the tool of the government that is used to track and regulate them.
Sum Ting Wong.
Pirated accounts shutting down in hopes of avoiding being caught by the government could account for half that maybe more.
The suggestion that it’s impossible to cancel your phone service seems dubious, given that prepaid phones have to be funded. No funding, and the phone company takes its number back within some number of days. The real problem is the lockdowns in the various provinces such that people can’t get back to work. While Chinese mobile rates are fairly low, relative to the US, so are Chinese wages. But with a huge number of workers effectively furloughed, I doubt many would bother topping up the second phone line with prepaid minutes.
Turned the phone off whilst not required?
Anybody taken a recent count of Uighurs and Falun Gong?
Apparently they recently updated phones to include healthcare information, very invasive.
Probably the cancellations just dropped their phones.
Laf Ot Wowd.
no work no money
Many people in Asia have two or three cell phone accounts. One is a job-related account and then a work-related one. If you are stuck at home you may not need the work phone.
I once laughed at a girl in the HK MTR who had 3 cell phones ringing at the same time.
Taxi drivers in HK and China have at least three often four or five cellphones on stands across the front dash. That way they can be in constant contact with passenger referral user groups. (1 Uber, 1 Lyft, 1 official, 1 personal, 1 for a user group)
Cell phone service in HK and China is a lot cheaper than here. Or so it appears to me. It is not unusual for people to have more than one phone.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that 21 million accounts out of a 1.4 billion person population does not necessarily indicate 21 million deaths. Though obviously, some of them have died, not all from Wuhan Flu.
Con Wu Hear Me Naw? No?
Twenty one million Chinese didn’t get a high enough social credit score to keep their phone.
They got cancelled by the CCP.
And if true, that’s a drop in the bucket of their population and nobody will notice.
You’re spot-on. Since the Chi-coms control access to the internet in the country, why wouldn’t they do the same thing with cell phones?
by Whu Flung Shit.
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