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Comment by mike_h | Hacker News Reader

China is on Earth, not in some other solar system. If their excess deaths per capita were a fraction of the numbers in the West, there would be no way to hide it.

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2020: missing / human trafficking in China is ~1million per year https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/human-trafficking-0209202...

2000: ~ 40million unregistered woman in china https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830941/

The easiest way to hide it is to report death was caused for another reason. If someone like yourself is going to take their numbers at face value they have already hidden it.

Ok, so conspiracy theory logic.

The CCP hiding deaths is not new at all. Covid is one of many at this point.

That's not how excess death calculations work. They would have to not report the deaths entirely, not just misattribute them.

Can you explain in detail what would be stopping them? I'm not seeing it.

Whether out of malice or just the difficulty of testing corpses with inadequate supplies s, I thought it was widely assumed all countries were underreporting in at least 2020 and probably further. Therefore, everyone serious looked at excess deaths.

People are still arguing how many people died in the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961. Some say as low as 15 million others as high as 50 million. It's easy to hide millions of deaths in authoritarian regimes.

Hong Kong have 1.1 million reported cases while the whole China have only 160K. Yes it is totally believable

> If their excess deaths per capita were a fraction of the numbers in the West, there would be no way to hide it.

Why not? Taiwan only had 854 covid deaths, or 0.00335%. Hiding that from official statistics doesn't seem too hard.

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