Evidence suggests that China managed to contain Covid for almost three years following the initial outbreak in Wuhan – through a combination of strict border closures and brutal lockdowns. Yet in December of 2022, the country finally abandoned its contentious zero-Covid policy, leading to a surge of cases.
How many people died in this post-zero-Covid outbreak? Because the Chinese government doesn’t publish accurate or timely data on Covid deaths, it was very difficult to know. And the official figure of 60,000 always seemed implausibly low.
Thanks to a new paper by Hong Xiao and colleagues, we now have a decent estimate: 1.87 million among people aged 30 and older (who of course account for the vast majority of deaths). That’s about 32 times greater than the official count.
How did the researchers arrive at this figure? Their method was quite clever. Xiao and colleagues began by tracking the number of obituaries for three major universities: Peking University and Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin. (The New York Times also used obituaries to show there was a spike in deaths around the time China abandoned zero-Covid.)
Here’s the clever part. The researchers correlated changes in the number of obituaries with changes in the number of Baidu searches for the terms ‘burial’, ‘cremation’, ‘crematorium’ and ‘funeral parlour’ in the corresponding regions. (Baidu is China’s equivalent to Google). They found that the relationship was extremely strong: obituaries and mortality-related searches shot up at precisely the same time.
This allowed them to work out by how much mortality rises when mortality-related search terms increase by a given amount. For example, the number of obituaries for the two Beijing universities rose by 400% in December of 2022, while mortality-related search terms in that region approximately doubled (an increase of 100%).
Since they had Baidu search data for every region of China, they were able to estimate the number of excess deaths in each region based on that region’s increase in mortality-related search terms. (Every region of China except Tibet saw a clear increase in mortality-related search terms in December of 2022.)
As noted above, their calculations yielded a figure of 1.87 million for the total number of excess deaths. This represents an increase of about 20% over the average number of deaths from 2015–2019, which means that China saw about the same level of excess mortality as France and Germany.
It seems that you can run from Covid but you can’t hide. Despite suppressing the virus for almost three years – going as far as locking people in their homes and forcing them into quarantine camps – China saw about the same level of excess mortality as major Western countries. The Chinese turned their entire society upside down fighting Covid, and in the end did no better than the Swedes.
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So even assuming the pathology was done correctly, that’s about 0.1% of the population. Which was at the end of life anyway.
It was all worth it, folks. Really it was.
I believe I do,
I believe it’s true,
I believe exactly what they tell me to.
Tom Paxton (What Did You Learn In School Today?)
Their ‘clever’ analysis used proxies to estimate deaths. This did not reveal cause of deaths. Likely, just as elsewhere, more people died from Government policy than the actual virus.
Mauled to death by a panda = a Rona death.
The study is a joke and hard to believe it is published, but there you go, the $cience.
Who financed the study?
Next study: LDs saved 14 trillion from dying say experts who correlated the phases of the moon with internet searches on pandemic, and cross tabulated and regressed the results against climate change. Yeah man. So much god damn science.
Haven’t seen this sort of article about excess covid deaths in over a year and I can’t bring myself to read it. It gives me the creeps.
‘Died from covid’ or died from vax /lockdown?
China did not have or allow mRNA jabs or any foreign jabs except in Hong Kong and perhaps Macau. But perhaps their own inactivated vaccines weren’t so great either. And lockdowns we know are deadly in themselves, as is iatrogenocide in general.
Well it’s all coming out in the wash now. Time for reparations for all unvaxxed who stood firm in the face of unprecedented tyranny and saw their basic civil liberties and human rights being trampled on, plus the people who only got jabbed under duress, due to the threat of losing their jobs, and have consequently ended up with either life-changing disabilities or long-term illness. A LOT of heads need to be put on spikes for this.
”The AfD has called out the German government for pushing vaccines when it had no scientific evidence that the principal vaccine administered in the country actually saved lives.
The German Ministry of Health under Karl Lauterbach (SPD) admitted to his country’s parliament on September 5th that, with regard to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine Comirnaty, no “significant difference in overall mortality” had been found between those vaccinated against COVID-19 and the unvaccinated. The statement came in response to a parliamentary question submitted by AfD MP Roger Beckamp, Junge Freiheit reports.
Beckamp submitted the question based on the study with the identifier C4591001, which was part of the clinical trial information submitted to the German government for Comirnaty’s approval. The study included 43,448 subjects, half of whom received the vaccination while the other half were treated with a placebo.
In comments to Junge Freiheit, Beckamp said that the federal government must now admit what it has known for a long time: the vaccine didn’t work.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/german-health-minister-admits-pfizer-biontech-covid-shot-made-no-difference-in-mortality/
Indeed, reparations are LONG overdue!
To anyone killed or injured by the jabs.
To anyone killed or injured by iatrogenesis.
To our elders who were left to die alone, often pumped full of midazolam.
To any “essential” (read: expendable) workers who were denied the benefit of paid furlough.
To anyone whose livelihoods were destroyed.
To any “deaths of despair” caused or exacerbated by lockdowns.
And so on.
And last but not least, the children. Will they, and future generations, ever forgive us?
I was literally just wondering yesterday how many excess deaths China ultimately had. Their official Covid numbers were always too low to be true and as of January 2023 they abruptly and permanently stopped all reporting, per Worldometer.
…being China, you have to accept that according to the Western World they’ll never tell the truth, even if they are…..they are damned if they do, and damned if they don’t…..if they did well, they’re lying, if they admit to some figures, it’s not enough …it’s a bit of a fruitless exercise to a certain extent even talking about it in my opinion….
All that’s needed is for WHO to invent fake pandemics, for pharma to manufacture billions of doses of mRNA based fake vaccines and for governments to insist that digital IDs will remain valid only if you accede to these injurious jabs, and there’s a near perfect depopulation tool with plausible deniability.
They may do other things too, but I think they are going to try this.
We must keep speaking out and trying to wake people up.
It’s only takes a substantial minority to say NO & these diabolical plans fail.”
With best wishes
Mike
Dr Mike Yeadon
https://t.me/DrMikeYeadon
Dr Mike Yeadon nails it yet again.
In other words, you either do China (at very great cost), or you do Sweden (or Belarus, Nicaragua, Tanzania, or South Dakota). Anything in between does far more harm than good in the long run.
https://expose-news.com/2023/09/03/deagel-2025-cia-rockefeller-c19-vaccine/
The Expose laying bare the story behind the Deagel predictions of population collapses.
Covid was being discussed by the USA Government months before the WHO had initially named this allegedly ‘new’ variety of ‘flu.
WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty plus Digital ID, plus CBDC and mandatory “vaccinations” and all of a sudden the Deagel predictions look eminently achievable.
“Some of you may recall a population forecast by a group called Deagel for many countries that was online in 2020.
For U.K. it predicted a reduction in population of more than 70%, with falls in USA only a little behind at 68%.
The target date given was 2025.
So far, though all-causes mortality is hugely & unmistakably well above recently established trend lines, accompanied by unprecedented falls in live birth rates, extrapolating a further two years wouldn’t result in population reductions anything like as large as in the Deagel reports.
I infer that there’s a high likelihood of further assaults on the population.
I have read documents going back decades & the self appointed elites anticipated using a mixture of infectious diseases, poisonous vaccines, regional conflicts including civil & general wars, even starvation.
Please use your imagination. If you were trying to harm a population with plausible deniability, what would you do?
Some combination of these seems likely to occur. The perpetrators are not going away unless & until enough of us say no.
You do not have to comply with unjust laws. It is often said that “When government becomes tyrannical, resistance becomes a duty”.
I have read that those who would visit tremendous evil on others are required, by their own perverted code, to warn their victims beforehand.”
Best wishes
Mike
https://expose-news.com/2023/09/03/deagel-2025-cia-rockefeller-c19-vaccine/
https://t.me/DrMikeYeadon
I really hope to God that Deagle is wrong!
I can just see the Covidians grasping at straws: “But…but…they kept it at bay for three years! if a doctor were to keep a cancer at bay for that long, he or she would be called a hero.”
Last I checked, cancer treatment 1) is NOT done against the patient’s will, 2) does NOT violate the human rights of the patient, or any third parties either, and 3) does NOT irreversibly damage the economy and society for generations to come. So the temporary benefits of lockdown don’t come anywhere even remotely close to the costs and harms.
(Mic drop)
So we’re to believe that covid escaped from Wuhan, infected the rest of the planet but not the rest of China?
Covid in the UK was, at most, a trivial cause of death – the spike in deaths in Spring 2020 and the second spike in the Winter of 20/21 were clearly iatrogenic – so exactly how were the Chinese killed?
Nope..not entirely buying it….most countries in Asia and Oceania had low Covid deaths BEFORE the quacksines….
If you look at the graphs they all seemed to weather 2020 into 2021 with very few deaths, then ‘something’ happens..for some around mid/late 2021…but particularly at the beginning of 2022…..when ‘Convid’ deaths take off…..(and at a time when the supposed stronger and more serious ‘Alpha’’ strain was dying down)
As we know that the least NPI’s brought about the best results..something they did..that was not Convid…caused their major problems….
Or the data is made up. Communists wouldn’t do that would they?
Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore to name a few countries that I don’t think we consider communist, had very few deaths in the first year…until??
If China then didn’t use mRNA, maybe they did do better than the others?
When Australia, and New Zeeland in particular, shut their borders to an airborne virus, they effectively ensured they would be hit hard when the borders opened back up, as their populations would have been largely immunologically naïve to this and other viruses. Throwing all their chips onto novel and new therapies/vaccines guaranteed bad outcomes just as it would if they had gone to the horses and put their life savings onto a hot tip. Neither the lockdowns nor the idea of vaccinating ones way out of pandemic have ever been done or recommended.
“Evidence suggests that China managed to contain Covid for almost three years following the initial outbreak in Wuhan – through a combination of strict border closures and brutal lockdowns. Yet in December of 2022, the country finally abandoned its contentious zero-Covid policy, leading to a surge of cases.”
Interesting timing as this is saying that lockdowns were really really effective. Is this psychological preparation for coming lockdowns here? Who believes this assertion because we have data from other countries and incidents, such as the ‘major incident’ at Bournemouth Beach, that show otherwise?
Remember Bruce Aylward? The following video was put out by China Daily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH94594FMgI
WHO expert : International community called me for China’s approach in combating COVID-19
Here is Bruce Aylward being interviewed about why Taiwan is not in the WHO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFRHB-wP9SU
Kate Wand has produced this video. By corrupting global institutions, promoting forged data, publishing fraudulent science, and deploying propaganda on an unprecedented scale, the CCP under Xi Jinping transformed the snake oil of lockdowns into “science,” the greatest crime of the 21st century to date. This is the story of how he did it, and why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9YtLcso5Eg
May I introduce the term ‘controlled opposition opposition’ (sic).
This is when someone supports the narrative in a way that is obviously fallacious. It appears that way only to those that are awake to the narrative, but not to those that are duped by the narrative.
Noah, you exemplify this term – as you have in many an article on DailySceptic. I salute you. There are those here who would vilify you. You have not once mentioned ‘vaccination’. That is a brilliant move! The narrative sheep will rejoice in this article, and fall in line behind you. But will then find themselves asking “Why no mention of vaccination?” Awakening begins for them!
After three and a half years of ineffective attempts to wean the sheep away from the narrative, all of us here should appreciate your skill at counter psyops.