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[When I was in the USAF we had a term for what is going on with China’s reporting on their virus, “pencil whipping”.]

Stateside, and probably throughout Europe, because of the special funding for covid-19 cases, I expect more causes of death are being coded as part of the pandemic in order to get more funding to cover chronic medical facility budget shortfalls or just to get on the gravy train. Died from falling down the stairs and tested positive for covid-19? From the hospital’s perspective, this person might have died from covid-19, not a broken neck. I would expect to see decreased mortality from all other causes for as long as Uncle Sam covers the bill for the covid-19 pandemic.

We subsidize the bills for this bug, so we get more reported cases. Xi Jinping punishes people for counting new cases, so he gets zero.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/26/821457551/whats-inside-the-senate-s-2-trillion-coronavirus-aid-package
[Hospitals: There is $100 billion for hospitals responding to the coronavirus.]