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Editorial: The Reality of China’s Pandemic and the CCP’s Demise
epoch times ^ | 20 January A.D. 2023 | Epoch Times Editorial Board

Posted on 01/20/2023 9:18:34 PM PST by lightman

The pandemic is spreading like wildfire again across China. Since December, an estimated 900 million people in China have been infected, according to Peking University. The number could reach as high as 80 to 90 percent of the population, according to prominent Chinese infectious disease experts.

Ever since the first wave of the virus in Wuhan in 2019, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has done everything in its power to cover up the true extent of the outbreak and its death toll.

In reality, the spread of the virus in China continued over the past three years, resulting in an immense societal impact and a massive death toll.

Sources on the ground in China have described the severity of the situation to Epoch Times reporters. Residents say it is difficult or impossible to secure a cremation or burial site for their loved ones.

Cremation centers across China have been overloaded and are working nonstop. In many cases, crematoriums have weeks of backlog, and refrigerator units for meat storage are being repurposed to store dead bodies. Cremation centers and funeral homes have sharply increased their spending on items such as body bags and cold storage containers.

For example, Reuters reported on Jan. 20 that in Shantou city, a funeral home made an “emergency purchase” of two additional cremation ovens. In the city of Zigong, a funeral service center ordered nearly 200,000 liters (more than 52,000 gallons) of diesel after being “almost exhausted.” And in Jieshou city, officials said “the funeral hall’s remains refrigerator cannot meet the current unit demand,” leading them to order 10 additional large-scale freezers. A manufacturer of incinerators in Shandong Province says its plant has recently been operating at full capacity and “working overtime 24 hours to meet the urgent procurement needs.”

One way the CCP has kept the death toll artificially low is by forcing family members to sign papers claiming the deaths of their loved ones are unrelated to COVID-19, in exchange for allowing the bodies to go through the system and actually be cremated. Meanwhile, staff members at cremation centers have received strict instructions not to share with the outside world any information on the number of bodies being burned.

The CCP has more than 100 years of experience in lying to deceive the public. Whenever a disaster hits China, no matter how bad, the CCP will turn it around and use it as an opportunity to glorify the Party and its response.

Between 1958 and 1961, at least 40 million people died in the Great Famine caused by the CCP. While starving its people, the regime celebrated its achievements, and the true death toll wasn’t known until decades later.

Recently, the CCP publicly celebrated its self-proclaimed “success” in combating COVID-19 and claimed the death toll was as low as 60,000 people. However, this is statistically nonsensical, as it would suggest that the virus was over 160 times more deadly in the United States than in China.

The regime’s nearly three-year-old “zero-COVID” policy has proven to be a humanitarian catastrophe. In the name of combating the outbreak, the populace was forced to endure extreme conditions. Hundreds of millions of people were put in quarantine centers or confined to their homes, leading to prolonged isolation and lack of access to food, basic supplies, and crucial medical care. Many were even forcibly sealed inside their apartments.

With Beijing’s draconian control over all parts of society, no official number in China can be trusted. Even the total size of China’s population is disputed. Last year, a data breach suggested that the CCP had been manipulating the country’s official birth rate, and a 2020 analysis suggested that the actual population could be 130 million fewer than the official number of 1.4 billion.

Foreign research firms, such as London-based Airfinity, Ltd., are now estimating that 36,000 people will die from COVID-19 per day in China by the end of January.

The real number is likely many times higher.

Citing accounts of crematoriums operating continuously, Sean Lin, a virologist and former lab director at the viral disease branch of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, estimated that Chinese funeral homes may have burned 6 million bodies in the past month. And because people in the countryside lack access to cremation services, the actual death toll could be as high as 10 million for the month—a conservative estimate, he said.

The Epoch Times reported in March 2020, just months after the initial outbreak of COVID-19, that the number of cell phone users in China had dropped by 21 million within three months. Cell phones in China are an indispensable part of everyday life, even being used for official identification. Data points such as this one suggest the real death toll over three years could be in the hundreds of millions.

During previous disasters, top CCP officials considered themselves protected by their ill-begotten wealth and power.

However, in recent weeks, information has leaked out about the deaths of many high-ranking CCP officials, including former senior military members, retired officials, academics, and industry experts. These officials, who are typically entitled to privileges, including every medical and life-saving treatment at the Chinese regime’s disposal, are now dying in high numbers.

Notably, the astronomical spike in infections and a massive death toll in China since December haven’t been seen in other parts of the world, despite China opening its borders in early January.

So why is the situation in China disproportionately worse than in the rest of the world?

The ancients believed that plagues punished humankind when its sins became too great.

In Eastern thought, specifically, there’s the concept of karma, which is acquired as a result of committing bad or immoral deeds.

The Chinese Communist Party has, for the past 70 some years, committed numerous sins. Not only did it destroy China’s rich traditions and culture, but it went so far as to destroy those who believed in the divine. Its campaigns have resulted in an estimated 80 million unnatural deaths.

Most recently, the CCP has engaged in a whole-of-society persecution targeting an estimated 100 million practitioners of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong. The persecution was launched in 1999 by then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin, who died in November last year.

The persecution has affected all Chinese people and all aspects of society, with the CCP spending upward of a quarter of its GDP on carrying it out in the early years. Students are indoctrinated with propaganda smearing Falun Gong in school, while university applicants have been forced to sign a statement opposing the practice as a requirement for college entry. The regime has demanded that neighbors, family members, and coworkers report Falun Gong practitioners to authorities, turning members of society against one another.

Practitioners themselves, who believe in cultivating goodness based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance, have been subjected to torture, arbitrary detention in labor camps, and the harvesting of their organs while still alive.

“Pandemics and plagues are part of a divine plan and inevitable in the course of history. When people become immoral they generate karma, become sick, and experience disastrous things,” wrote Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong, in an article titled “Stay Rational” at the outset of the pandemic in March 2020.

“But a pandemic like the current Chinese Communist Virus (or “Wuhan Virus”) comes with a purpose behind it, and it has targets. It is here to weed out members of the Party and those who have sided with it,” Mr. Li wrote.

History has shown us previous examples of this. In ancient Rome, the persecution of Christians resulted in four plagues, and the powerful Roman Empire declined and eventually perished. In China’s history, a change of dynasty often occurred when the court became corrupt and social morality degraded; plagues frequently resulted.

Ultimately, the best cure for this plague is to reject the CCP.

We hope every person can survive this disaster safely and help to usher in a brighter tomorrow.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bloggers; brics; ccp; china; coupflu; covid1984; india; redchina
Ultimately, the best cure for this plague is to reject the CCP.

The CCP IS the plague.

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1 posted on 01/20/2023 9:18:34 PM PST by lightman
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To: All

The current variant is laying waste to China. Their numbers have been quoted low, the article is correct, but the reason why . . . they have it wrong. China Covid deaths are not be labeled that because they have a strict requirement of total respiratory failure to get labeled Covid.

The current variant is no longer killing via low blood oxygen. It is attacking the heart and kidneys. Organ failure of these does not qualify for the statistic.

There is confirmation of this in Japan. They are experiencing their highest Covid death counts of the 2+ years of the virus. But they have almost no ventilator use. It is not killing via respiratory failure.

There is a very preliminary study out of Japan showing no predominance of these variant deaths among vaxed vs unvaxed. The current variant doesn’t seem to care.


2 posted on 01/20/2023 9:44:22 PM PST by Owen
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To: lightman

The headline advertises the “demise” of the CCP, does the article deliver?


3 posted on 01/20/2023 9:45:40 PM PST by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
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To: lightman

Having nailed inside their homes, for years on straight, the CCP has a weakened population to deal with. So, the second round of covid could be artificially high as a result.


4 posted on 01/20/2023 9:50:57 PM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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The Chinese Communist Party has, for the past 70 some years, committed numerous sins. Not only did it destroy China’s rich traditions and culture, but it went so far as to destroy those who believed in the divine …
This would not be surprising to anyone who has read the Communist Manifesto.
“Undoubtedly,” it will be said, “religious, moral, philosophical, and juridical ideas have been modified in the course of historical development. But religion, morality, philosophy, political science, and law, constantly survived this change.”

“There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.”

What does this accusation reduce itself to? The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms, antagonisms that assumed different forms at different epochs. But whatever form they may have taken, one fact is common to all past ages, viz., the exploitation of one part of society by the other. No wonder, then, that the social consciousness of past ages, despite all the multiplicity and variety it displays, moves within certain common forms, or general ideas, which cannot completely vanish except with the total disappearance of class antagonisms.

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involved the most radical rupture with traditional ideas. …
Destroying religion, culture, family, private property et al is dogma to communism, and therefore no sin in its twisted worldview.
5 posted on 01/20/2023 9:57:42 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: nathanbedford

“ The headline advertises the “demise” of the CCP, does the article deliver?”

That’s a tall order, but it’s not inconceivable of late.

Their technosurveillance state is the biggest problem.

They are silently rounding up everyone who went to a rally or demonstration in November or December.

They know who was at them because of the technology.


6 posted on 01/20/2023 10:08:27 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan
The excesses of the CCP outlined in the article tell me that we should devoutly pray for the demise of the CCP but it does not tell me why or how that might occur.


7 posted on 01/20/2023 10:29:29 PM PST by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
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To: lightman

China is so corrupt there’s no way the truth can get out.


8 posted on 01/20/2023 10:29:31 PM PST by lurk (u)
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To: lightman

The real joke is that China manufactures most of the D3 we consume in America. If these Hi-IQ level Han Chinese had distributed D3 to everyone in CCP land. The Covid19 impact would have been 20% of what is going on now.


9 posted on 01/20/2023 10:34:37 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: nathanbedford

I think it says why.

How is reject them. Very broad.


10 posted on 01/20/2023 10:54:29 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Owen

There is confirmation of this in Japan. They are experiencing their highest Covid death counts of the 2+ years of the virus. But they have almost no ventilator use. It is not killing via respiratory failure.

I just saw a article that says Japan is now looking at Covid as no different than the Flu...

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/japan-lower-covid-19-flu-status-easing-rules-96556360


11 posted on 01/21/2023 5:27:46 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: nathanbedford; lightman

Epoch Times was founded by Falun Gong. I don’t really have much against them, but it’s good to know when using them as a source.


12 posted on 01/21/2023 7:43:24 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: nathanbedford

Tho the article may not deliver, there are more & more people talking & writing recently about the downward spiral of China


13 posted on 01/21/2023 7:46:30 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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I had a Schadenfreudetastic post assembled damning the confucian scum and celebrating their demise as karma for failing to overthrow the CCP and the PLA bioweapon program; but then Epoch veered into felching Falun Gong for paragraph after paragraph, as they always do as their party mouthpiece. It’s truly a goddamned shame John Tang doesn’t utilize Epoch properly, but then again, confucian scum gonna scum.


14 posted on 01/21/2023 12:07:28 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: lightman

Since you are the resident FAlun Gong Epoch Times retard here, let’s see, average 25 FAlun Gong Epoch Times post every month, that means flooding this site with at least 300 useless FAlun Gong posts yearly, take this message to your boss: 吃我的鸡巴. (”Eat my -—k.”)


15 posted on 01/21/2023 12:15:43 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: nuconvert

That’s why I trust the source.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.


16 posted on 01/21/2023 2:23:32 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Olog-hai

Destroying religion, culture, family, private property et al is dogma to the dimrats in DC also. And since china is paying 1/2 or more of DC, that thinking would follow.


17 posted on 01/22/2023 12:00:10 PM PST by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: lightman
In this country 5 million virus deaths would be a huge crisis. In Red China 50 million deaths...particularly deaths of the elderly and infirm...is a plus. The demise of Red China? Don't be silly!
18 posted on 01/23/2023 5:24:05 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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