Early last year, a large number of newly crowned infected deaths led to the collapse of Wuhan’s funeral industry, and Chinese officials mobilized funeral Home staff from around the country to provide emergency reinforcements. (Chongqing Civil Affairs Department / date of filming unknown)
The visit of a WHO expert team to Wuhan to trace the source of the new crown virus, coupled with the frequent memorial services before the Chinese New Year that led to a break in the market for flowers, has renewed public speculation about the mystery of the deaths from the new crown Epidemic. According to information from the Department of Civil Affairs, in the first quarter of last year, more than 150,000 elderly people in Hubei province suddenly disappeared from the allowance rolls, but officials not only refused to explain, but also strictly forbade the media and private individuals to keep statistics on funeral information.
Wuhan people buy flowers before the Spring Festival to pay tribute to their deceased relatives, leading to the city’s flower market break caused widespread concern, but also let the official deliberately downplayed a year of the mystery of Wuhan’s new crown death toll, once again into the spotlight.
Recently, some local scholars and media people combed through the official information from the Hubei Provincial Department of Civil Affairs and found that the officially released funeral information showed that the number of cremated remains in Hubei province last year showed a relatively large increase.
Liu Jun, a concerned NGO, pointed out that he previously judged the death toll to be at least five times higher than the official announcement, but now it appears to be far higher than his original judgment. But anyone who tries to find out the real information now could be caught.
Liu Jun said: I thought at the Time that at least five times was concealed, that may still be less serious for me here. Because I live in this area in Wuhan city is considered a remote place. Maybe in Hankow wow, in the central part of the words, more some. Because we do not have the opportunity to prove this thing, the people who seek evidence are shut down. These things we have to write it down, one day try to restore a truth.
Mr. Liu also pointed out that the information on the old age allowance according to the Civil Affairs Department can be an important reference, and also indirectly confirm the actual scale of the British side’s criticism of China’s concealment of the epidemic last year. He argued that both the seemingly unintentional release of information on old age allowances by the Civil Affairs Department and the Wuhan media report that the so-called flower break in the city was just retaliatory consumption by the public could be seen as a disguised resistance under high pressure.
Liu Jun said: This is a pretty important thing, right? It seems that the Civil Affairs Department is providing a support to the British information, right? The locals have suffered such a big loss, how can they give up? So there are always people, they are willing to twist and turn things, euphemistically, right? This should be so. This time, if you can’t buy flowers, you may be complicit in this, that is, our local media in Hubei is not unaware that people are buying flowers for the dead, but he can’t write about it, he will do a positive report on this phenomenon, and then let us these self-publishing media to understand this thing point-blank.
Information from the Hubei Provincial Department of Civil Affairs shows that the province cremated a total of nearly 410,000 sets of remains in the first three quarters of last year, compared with 374,000 sets and 360,000 sets of cremated remains in 2019 and the same period in 2018, respectively. However, funeral information has been officially regarded as a state secret, and the authenticity of this information is in doubt.
And information on the so-called allowance for people over 80 years old (75 years old in the Shennongjia Mountains) released by the Department of Civil Affairs shows that as many as 150,000 elderly people, suddenly disappeared from the list of old age allowances in the province in the first quarter of last year alone.
A scholar who wished to remain anonymous pointed out that both the country and Wuhan are aging more and more seriously, with the number of elderly people increasing every year, but the Hubei Civil Affairs Department’s information on old-age allowances has fallen off a cliff, which in itself is not normal. He also pointed out that this only concerns the situation of the elderly over 80 years old, and the breakdown of statistical information is tightly blocked, the full picture of the epidemic is even less known to the outside world.
Mr. Zhou said: the government has several departments each have a information, it is as a reference indicator, there is no problem, because the aging is getting more and more serious, by definition, the elderly is now more and more, not less and less. This is certainly not normal. It is because the hospitals are vacated, so that other diseases, which cause an increase in the number of deaths, is also an indirect effect. In the country, it is not counted in the number of new crown deaths.
The Hubei Provincial Department of Civil Affairs did not comment on the matter. Phone numbers for several departments at the agency went unanswered.
Since the full-blown outbreak of New Crown in Wuhan early last year, the Chinese government has at one point kept a tight lid on the news, deliberately concealing the scale of the epidemic even after it was no longer possible to do so, allegedly misleading the international community about the outbreak. To date, Chinese officials continue to refuse to provide truthful information to international agencies, including the WHO, and the international community, and to obstruct further investigations by expert groups.
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