21 Million drop in China's mobile users may suggest higher coronavirus death toll:

english.alarabiya.net ^ | 31 March 20 | english.alarabiya Tuga Khalid

[hapnHal]

Report: A major drop of 21 million cellphone users in China over the past few months may indicate a higher death toll due to the coronavirus than what the Chinese government has officially announced, a report by The Epoch Times newspaper, which opposes the Communist Party of China, suggests.China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued on March 19 the latest statistics of the number of phone users in each province in February 2020.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued on March 19 the latest statistics of the number of phone users in each province in February 2020

Cellphone users dropped dramatically.The number of cellphone users decreased from 1.601 billion to 1.58 billion, a drop of 21 million.

“The Chinese regime requires all Chinese to use their cellphones to generate a health code. Only with a green health code are Chinese allowed to move in China now. It’s impossible for a person to cancel his cellphone,” Tang Jingyuan, a US-based China affairs commentator, told The Epoch Times on March 21.

According to The Epoch Times, the Chinese government first launched cellphone-based health codes on March 10. All people in China were required to install a cellphone app and register their personal health information. Then the app generated a QR code, which appeared in three colors, to classify the user’s health level.

Red meant the person has an infectious disease, yellow meant the person might have one, and green meant the person doesn’t.

The Chinese government had said that the health codes were intended to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.The Epoch Times’ report says: “the big question is whether the dramatic drop in cellphone accounts reflects the account closings of those who have died” due to the coronavirus.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Inquiring minds want to know.

[hadaclueonce]

Bet they had more than one account.
Kinda like Facebook, more accounts than humans.

[Persevero]

Off may indeed but there were other factors. Massive job loss resulting in:

Owner carried company cell phones shut down.

Closed businesses no longer using their any of their cell phones

People with extra/luxury lines economized and cancelled.

And Extra poverty making even some with but one cell phone give it up.

Some must be due to death but certainly not all. Their lousy commie economy has taken a huge huge hit. The poor people.

[Kurmudgeon]

Exception that most Chinese use more than one phone, and up to five.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

When you’re trying to hide millions of deaths it’s hard to cover all of the clues. I’m sure that these phone companies have posted the number of users as a matter of pride for years. It’s likely that the people responsible just kept doing it out of habit not realizing the telltale numbers would indict the CCP.

[dp0622]

I’m betting several hundred thousand died though

[taxcontrol]

“Chinese Information” - same thing as:

Unicorn farts
Big foot sightings
Climate change models

[marron]

Based on reports from funeral homes and crematoriums some have estimated a death toll between forty and fifty thousand.

[PeteB570]

First posted on FR March 22.

Yours is the 5th post with “21 Million” in the title since then.

[spetznaz]

Exactly. There’s no way just 3,300 Chinese died. China wasn’t locking up millions of people in cities, spraying streets, and welding people in their homes because 3,300 people died. Something spooked them and spooked them good.

We may never know the real Chinese numbers, but no way in three months they only lost the same number of people Italy lost in a week. No way.

[SunkenCiv]

Well they were cell phones, and viruses attack cells...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=21%20million

[Blurb2350]

Yeah, the Chinese are clearly lying about the number of deaths, but no way it was anywhere near 21 million. Probably a combination of all the reasons other posters have given, in addition to the dictatorship taking advantage of the hysteria to disconnect large numbers of “citizen journalists” and other undesirables to prevent revelations not in keeping with the narrative.

[dp0622]

Great post.

No some analysts said with the amount of smoke and the time the crematoriums ran it was hundreds of thousands.

I thought we had such fancy radar and spies and this and that.

i guess not.

[Mr. Rabbit]

I seem to recall just a week or two ago they were claiming 16 million disappeared cell phones. Now it’s 21 million. It could just be cheap Chinese knock-off crap phones falling apart like the rest of their junk. However, anyone with a brain knows the ChiComs are lying about their ChiCom Beer Virus numbers. I’ll bet they recording them as “pneumonia” or “old age” or “filthy capitalist pigs”. It would be par for the course for the Party of Murdering Mao. Life is cheap to commies.

[ealgeone]

We do...but we don't want to tell the Chicoms how good they are.

We'll let the demoncrats fill them in.

[hanamizu]

You are no doubt aware that doubting the Chinese Communist death totals from the Wuhan, China virus is both racist and politically incorrect. That’s doubleplus ungood.

It’s racist because Chinese are “people of color” (oddly they are not when it comes to college admissions). It’s politically incorrect just because you’re not supposed to criticize progressives/socialists/communists.

[dp0622]

Yeah well I’ve never been good at that stuff and don’t ever recall being good at it :)

I say what I want.

And I’d rather be killed protecting that right because I HATE being told how to act, what to say or what to do. :)

[rollo tomasi]

The battle of conspiracies and overhype, at least this is entertaining.

[Kirkwood]

Agree.