[russellw]

There's very little doubt that the Chinese mortality figures are rubbish. For their reported 90k new cases last month they only reported 9 deaths which is a CMR of 0.010% whereas our 435k cases last month resulted in 825 deaths for a CMR of 0.190% and we have one of the lowest case mortality rates in the world.

Mind you, their whole of pandemic case total of 393k is likely a fairy tale too although even then the reported 5,241 deaths is a CMR of 1.33%.

If we extrapolate the case numbers for last month to even our CMR that makes an extra 160 deaths and at their whole of pandemic CMR it would be around 1,180 more - not that we'll ever know the truth of it.