If there really were 21 million deaths, that would explain why people in the know were soiling themselves.
However, if there were only thousands of deaths here, why were there millions in China?
Seems unlikely, but what would I know?
Higher population density, WAY more people dependent on mass transit, no suburbia with built in social distancing.
NYC is showing similar problems as the Chinese had for the reasons they had them.
>However, if there were only thousands of deaths here, why were there millions in China?
1. Strain was more virulent and deteriorated over time.
2. Polluted air in China exacerbated conditions.
3. Reports that Chinese were given Eastern herbal medicine and not any drugs to relieve issues.
4. Hurried responses, leading to quick immolation of convalescents.
5. Village lockdowns were by barricading roads, leading to absolutely no treatment.
6. Secondary deaths (single care providers with children dying, locked inside, thus children also die).
According to articles I have read, a check of cell phone usage in China indicates 22 million accounts have ceased activity. That's a lot.
These articles claim this is an indication of how many had potentially died of Corona Virus.
Most of the rest of the world believes and practices public and personal sanitation - not in China. And that’s the didfference
“However, if there were only thousands of deaths here, why were there millions in China?”
I listened to a china “expert” talking about this. He said that 14 million of the accounts were a pay as you go type. They belonged to students, transients, visitors, etc. He said that if they weren’t using the accounts, they weren’t paying for them and they would, eventually, be cancelled. However, the remaining accounts, about six million, he believed were regular accounts, prepaid or post paid. If that many were abruptly cancelled, due to non payment, which appears to be the case, then those account holders, or some percentage of them, were most likely dead. When your population is over 1.5 billion, what percentage of them drop dead of natural causes over a several month period? I found an estimate of China’s death rate in 2019 as 7.5 per thousand. So, would that mean that eleven million people die annually? If so, six million deaths in several months would be normal.
THe large number is attributable to the idea that each chinese has more than one cell usually and some businesses might have closed. I would gather 3 times less is plausible, and it still is 7 million!
Two weeks to a month incubation, plus asymptomatic transmission.
Many Millions were already infected before the first symptoms started to appear among the earliest infected people.
All those infected and contagious people were traveling all over, riding trains and planes, working with dozens or hundreds of people, visiting family and friends.
By the time someone showed symptoms, you would have to backtrack to every person they had contacted over the previous month, and all the people that those people had contacted, and so forth.