Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

No Surprise: The PRC Has Been Lying

It seems rather evident that the Chinese government has been lying about the Coronavirus from the start.
While the authorities continue to insist the death toll from the outbreak in Wuhan is just 2,535, news reports and social media posts over the weekend revealed that seven crematoriums in Wuhan have been handing out over 3,500 urns per day since the restrictions were eased.

The crematoriums have told families they hope to have completed the distribution of urns by April 5, when the traditional grave-tending festival of Qing Ming takes place. If the numbers of urns handed out so far remains consistent, that will mean the remains of over 40,000 people will be distributed in less than two weeks.
The Chinese numbers are about as reliable as the Russian ones.

2 comments:

Borepatch said...

I think it's institutional: nobody wants to be the guy who reports bad news up the chain of command. It's the same thing that had the CIA saying that the USSR's economy was the world's third largest a year before the Berlin Wall fell. The CIA was getting its info from the Central Committee itself, but the info was completely wrong.

Yes, I expect there's a certain amount of malice towards the West in play here, but you don't need that to explain the lousy data.

Comrade Misfit said...

Not giving bad news to the chain of command is baked into the Chinese system, apparently for millennia.