Satellite photos reveal
The horrifying scope
of China’s latest Covid surge
Welcome to China Uncensored. I’m Chris Chappell.
China is suffering from a massive Covid surge. Again.
The Chinese Communist Party makes the same mistakes so many times I could probably
go on vacation and rerun old episodes of China Uncensored and you’d barely notice.
Right now in one province, 90% of people have contracted Covid.
This is a crisis for the Chinese Communist Party. For years,
they locked down the country with the brutal Zero Covid Policy.
The end result was still a massive Covid outbreak.
So they made millions of people suffer, all in the name of protecting them from suffering.
Yup, sounds like communism, alright.
Now keep in mind, “The World Health Organization says the
current ‘explosion’ of cases is not the result of the abandonment of zero-Covid.”
The current surge was happening before the Party backed off of Zero Covid.
“The Party simply lost the ability to keep zero-Covid measures...in place.”
So the Party was like, hey, let’s just pretend like this wasn’t our fault!
And while we’re at it, let’s just keep pretending Tiananmen
Square never happened and there’s no genocide going on in Xinjiang.
I’m not sure if China is located in Asia or in the Land of Make Believe.
The Party is lying about the current number of dead.
As the Party did throughout the entire pandemic.
Official numbers put the death toll at 5,200 nationwide.
That’s for the entire pandemic over three years. That is transparently a lie.
“Projections made by international experts put the real death toll closer to 5,000 people each day.”
Some models predict more than 1 million people will die from Covid in China this year.
There are a variety of reasons why this is happening.
First, Chinese vaccines aren’t very effective, even according to top Chinese officials.
And considering how boldly they lie, when top Chinese officials say their vaccines
aren’t very effective, there’s a chance it’s because it’s actually just Gatorade.
Turns out electrolytes can only do so much.
But the main problem, according to Mai He, a professor of pathology and immunology at
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis , is that due to zero covid, most Chinese
people’s immune systems have not been primed. According to Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for
global health at the Council on Foreign Relations , “China was so proud of its
covid control measures until spring of 2021. But look at it now. Everything has
fallen apart and its pandemic response model has become a laughingstock. This
is going to affect not just the leaders but the legitimacy of the regime itself.”
Because despite the Communist Party’s lies, people are seeing the bodies pile up for themselves.
And now, new satellite imagery gives us a clue just how bad it is.
I’ll tell you more after the break.
Welcome back.
Covid is surging in China.
Hospitals are overrun.
This is a mortuary in Shanghai. Extra body bags are strewn all over the floors.
Here’s another mortuary in Liaoning province that’s running out of room.
The person recording the video says they needed to send bodies to other locations.
This is how bad it’s getting: “Scalpers in Shanghai sold places in line at
funeral homes for $300 a pop to grieving relatives trying to get cremation slots.”
And then were probably immediately hired by Ticketmaster. “I like the cut of your jib!”
And yet the Chinese Communist Party says less than 40 people have died in China of Covid since Zero
Covid officially ended on December 7. (source
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/01/09/china-crematorium-covid-deaths/)
Right.
Well, new satellite photos give us an idea of just how bad things are.
Maxar Technologies provided the Washington Post with images that
show increased activity at funeral homes in several major Chinese cities.
One funeral home receptionist the Post contacted said, “I have worked here for
six years and it has never been this busy. The phone has basically not stopped ringing,”
She said their freezers were full and their eight incinerators were working 24/7.
And if you were wondering, yes that is unusual.
And remember, that’s just one funeral parlor. Yet the CCP says only 40 people have died nationwide?
Come on.
At the very least, if they’re going to shovel propaganda, they could make it believable.
Like, say they did this to provide job security to funeral homes and doctors. You’re welcome.
Cremation is the main way deceased in Chinese cities are handled. The way
it works is when a family member dies, they have to call a funeral parlor or
third party to pick up the body. The family then usually goes in person,
with a death certificate and ID card to register a time for cremation.
That’s why it's significant that this funeral parlor in Beijing
had to build a new parking lot to handle the increased traffic.
“Staff at the funeral home were working overtime, cremating as many as 150 bodies a day.”
This photo from Nanjing, a major city northwest of Shanghai, also shows a surge of vehicles.
And footage from a nearby funeral home shows a long line of white vans commonly used as hearses.
Besides how shocking and grim this is, imagine what all these extra cremations
are doing for the air quality. It was bad enough when the smog
was from vehicles and burning coal. Now people are breathing in uncles.
Hm. I think that may have been the darkest joke in the history of this show.
*That’s* how bad the situation is!
Here’s a funeral home in Kunming,
in Yunnan Province. You can see an increase in traffic and crowds of people queuing outside.
And video emerged showing how crowded the facility was. That’s one busy funeral parlor.
Again, just say this was done for job security. It’s still a lie,
but one that actually has some merit.
Many funeral parlors across China have suspended memorial services because
of the surge. They’ve essentially just become cremation factories at this point.
Meanwhile, Liang Wannian , a top adviser on the government’s coronavirus response team,
said “It is only after the wave when we can
calculate the case fatality rate and death rate more accurately.”
I think you can calculate it more good enough right now than
5,000 total deaths during the entire pandemic. Don’t need to wait on that.
But one thing’s for sure. The Chinese regime will keep covering things up. Even if it kills them.
Over and over again. On the bright side, with all these repeats, maybe it means I’ll
finally get to take a vacation.
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Now that’s a very interesting question. I’ll expand it past
5 years though. Has the CCP done anything good for China?
Now this is a key part of Communist Party propaganda.
It’s hard to look at China in the 50’s and 60’s,
and not think things are so much better today. The trick though is that things were bad in
China for so long precisely because of Communist policies. Things only started to get materially
better once the Party backed off on things like communes and state-run work units and
allowed people to actually start businesses and make money. Though typically the people who
really made lots of money were Party members and their families. Not your average Zhou.
See what I did there? I’m very clever.
But the Chinese regime also used a lot of the foreign investment coming into China to finance
its systems of oppression—mass surveillance, internet censorship, and a sprawling police force.
Because ultimately the Party’s only aim is to secure its power.
Compared to what China would be like if Chinese people had freedom and rule of law,
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