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Lawrence Butts's avatar

The "authorities" at the time of the Black Plague did the same thing. On the churches were posted every death from the prior week, where they were from (the section of town) and what they died from. As things got worse they would leave names off the lists to deflate the numbers or they would attribute the death to another illness. It was soon discovered that there were "many" more deaths than they were willing to document. The authorities were trying to prevent or at least mitigate some of the insanity at the time. It was common for anyone who was "guilty" of spreading the plague to be locked into a building and burned alive. The rich would flee to countryside while the poor were forced to remained in the city to be slaughtered by the infection.

This situation is of course quite different. The authorities now definitely want to keep a lid on the truth because they are responsible for this plague. And if people find out how many are dying, the chaos that will most certainly break out at some point will result in very uncomfortable and/or deadly outcomes for them. They just don't want to be burned alive by a mob of angry relatives of their victims.

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Potatodots's avatar

Wow.

Thank you for this post.

That is rather ummm, startling! the way all-cause mortality plunged. New and improved jab batches? I very much like your characterization as did Filipinos and a new superpower. Seems the propagandists found another way to claim "safe and effective"- just stop reporting. Don't change the old stats, that's too obvious; just manipulate the new stats going forward.

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