One of the most important books of the 20th century is One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It is a semi-autobiographical story of his life inside a Soviet Gulag.
There is a part of the book that has always stuck with me. I believe I’ve mentioned it before.
Gulag rules said that prisoners could not be forced to work outside if the thermometer read lower than 40 below zero. However, the lowest the thermometer ever read was 38 below, so the prisoners always had to work outside.
This lesson was driven home to me again in the HBO show Chernobyl, where the Soviets said it was safe to send people into the reactor to work because the dosimeters read 3.6 Roentgen. That the dosimeters maxed out at 3.6 Roentgen was ignored.
China is no different than the Soviet Union in this regard. If the number measured isn’t the truth, just report the number measured.
Keep that in mind when you see what the media is posting about COVID-19 in the US.
Oddly enough, Bloomberg published this four days ago.
China’s Mobile Carriers Lose 21 Million Users as Virus Bites
China’s wireless carriers are reporting drops in users as the coronavirus crisis cuts business activity, with China Mobile Ltd., the world’s largest carrier, reporting its first net decline since starting to report monthly data in 2000.
China Mobile subscriptions fell by more than 8 million over January and February, data on the company’s website show. China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd. subscribers fell by 7.8 million in the period, while China Telecom Corp. has said it lost 5.6 million users last month.
This is not definitive of anything.
However, given other information I’ve reported on, such as China welding people into their buildings and anecdotal reports of people being cremated alive, it suggests that China is suffering deaths in the millions and infections in the tens of millions.
People who died or were executed don’t need cell phones. Or the government cut them off to keep them from reporting on the fact that they were infected and/or sealed into buildings with other infected.
Now consider this. Elon Musk reportedly purchased 1,000 “excess” ventilators from China. How does China have excess ventilators when the rest of the world has a shortage?
If the government doesn’t intend to ventilate sick people and instead intends to let them die sealed into slum buildings, then they have “excess” ventilators they can sell for millions in cash.
So the media is reporting that the US has more confirmed cases than China, but that assumes that China is not surprising their numbers.
The US media really seems to be buying the Chinese propaganda on the spread of COVID-19 to make America and by extension Trump, look bad.
This is a grotesque state of affairs, but totally on-brand for our TDS media.
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