
Chinese health authorities reported that almost 60,000 people have died of COVID-related illnesses within the past month.
The figure is the first to be released since the government eased the country’s lockdown restrictions in early December.
In recent months, officials have been accused of de-emphasising the severity of the virus in the country.
But the actual calculation of deaths is still likely to be more elevated, as the 59,938 COVID-related cases reported between December 8 and January 12 account for only those recorded at medical facilities.
Just over 5,500 of the deaths were down to respiratory failure caused by the virus.
Despite damning evidence of bodies lining hospital wards, only 37 fatalities had been officially documented in China last month.
World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has asked China for more immediate, frequent, trustworthy data on hospitalisation and deaths.
Beijing authorities, however, have insisted that China has been forthcoming with its data.
Health officials have said the average age of those who died was 80.3 years old, with more than 90 per cent of fatalities above 65, but should we believe anything that’s reported by China?
Perhaps we should multiply that figure by 10, which might be nearer to some level of exactness, and all while the Wuhan lab is still up and running.
But this is COVID that we’re talking about and you never actually know the truth about what’s truly going on.
The ironic thing is the Chinese wore masks even before COVID became a thing and yet they still got COVID, which just confirms that the masks don’t work, or something more ominous is going on.
I’m not usually a conspiracy theorist but sometimes you just have to wonder if, in the long term, COVID was designed by China to drastically lower its own ageing and massively dependent population, and if this is the case then China’s reaping what they sow, and they created a monster that’s now killing not only their own people but all people of the world. Mind you, biological warfare will do that!