World Is China hiding COVID-19 death toll? 21 million cell phones disappeared, why?
Within minutes I had a response from what sure seemed like a Chinese bot...
Posted on 03/27/2020 12:19:42 AM PDT by McGruff
The long lines and stacks of ash urns greeting family members of the dead at funeral homes in Wuhan city are spurring questions about the true scale of coronavirus casualties at the epicentre of the outbreak, renewing pressure on a Chinese government struggling to control its containment narrative.
The families of those who succumbed to the virus in the central Chinese city, where the disease first emerged in December, were allowed to pick up their cremated ashes at eight local funeral homes starting this week. As they did, photos circulated on Chinese social media of thousands of urns being ferried in.
Outside one funeral home, trucks shipped in about 2,500 urns on both Wednesday (March 25) and Thursday, according to Chinese media outlet Caixin. Another picture published by Caixin showed 3,500 urns stacked on the ground inside. It's unclear how many of the urns had been filled.
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Interesting story about cell phone subscriber rates around Wuhan, out there I forget where.
Seem some 20+ million cell phone numbers have been deactivated, and in China the # is assigned to a specific person.
Could just be people cannot pay their bill...but.
China has demonstrated they are not to be trusted.
Because supposedly only 3500 or so died in the entire country.
Interesting data point. BTTT.
I’m the last person to ordinarily back up China, but there was apparently a recent change to China’s cell phone usage.
Apparently the government enacted a change to phone usage, mandating medical data be included on the phones.
At least that is my understanding.
Including information, apparently on whether a person met some criteria.
Again, at least that is what the story seemed to say, a week or so ago...
This story has been posted a number of times, since that first version.
It is possible, 20,000,000 simply cancelled their own phones...
As I understand it, it’s not unusual for folks to have two to
four phones there.
For some reason they dedicate them to personal, work, other...
If you’re using a phone for work and you’re in a lock-down
are you going to keep that phone?
Of course, dead people don’t need phones either.
I’m just not sure if this is all as sinister as 20+ million
cell phone accounts closed might be interpreted to be.
Obviously SOME of those phone no longer have owners...
Not sure if FR saw it, but a Chinese journalist on Twitter had video of a “whistleblower” who said that “patients” at a “health center” for COVID-19 in China were being bagged and burned, dead or alive. They check in but they don’t check out. The center was basically a flytrap to attract COVID-19 carriers after which China would conveniently dispose of them.
I’ve been around a number of people who had two to three numbers (all private...nothing to do with business). Most would say that they’d accidentally given one number out to too many people, and they needed the second number for private conversations. Others would suggest an extra number was for some hanky-panky situations. It might be curious to know what happened in this case.
Please understand that in China, your cell phone is also your identity. It is tied to all of your banking, your city card, etc. You pay for your number, and can keep it.
Yes, there are many Chinese who have other phones, burners. I’m sure a large number of the missing users just gave up those numbers.
We all know that a lot more than 3,500 died there.
It is interesting to see how people’s faith in the accuracy of Chinese data switches on and off.
In China everything is done via cell phone...
library tickets...bus rides....shopping....tax payments....doctor appointments.....and the intrusive "social rating"
...purchase a few too many liquor jugs in China and find cant get a bus ticket home.
At least they managed to increase their their urnings and profit from it.
i see what you did there :)
When the outbreak in Wuhan first started there were videos showing chaos in the local hospitals and some showing military locking people into buildings. Has anyone seen anything out of Wuhan recently that shows what life is like there now??
I’m sure everyone is getting back their family member and not some stranger.
If the other phone are just “ burners” how come the article states so many phones that were tied to owners have been disconnected?
If the phone is Registered to one person it is not a “burner”
Too often, it depends on if China's latest stance supports or opposes the person's views.
Yes, exactly.
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