Tag: COVID deaths

Lockdowns Prevented Few COVID-19 Deaths Compared to Typical Flu Season Study Reveals

Researchers have concluded that lockdowns should be “rejected out of hand” to control future pandemics as they failed to significantly reduce deaths. Experts from Johns Hopkins University and Lund University claim that measures taken to curb COVID-19 in the spring of 2020 failed to significantly reduce deaths while imposing severe economic and social costs. The…


CCP Military Newspaper Releases 20 Obituaries After the Two Sessions

From March 26 to April 17, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military newspaper published 20 obituaries. All were for CCP members, including three lieutenant generals, one academician, and eight “Corps Leader” rank generals. The release of these obituaries was seriously delayed, as 18 died during the three weeks between Dec. 28, 2022, and Jan. 18,…


Young Chinese Reserve Burial Plots in Advance as Graves Cost More Than High-End Property

China’s cemetery real estate industry has become more lucrative than its residential property market. The phenomenon has led many young people to preorder burial plots to cope with the soaring prices. Due to the high demand for burial plots, the price per square meter of some plots in Shanghai is already much higher than residential…


Top Chinese University Released 30 Obituaries Since December

COVID-19 infections in China surged in early December 2022. The sudden increase in celebrity deaths raised doubts over the country’s officially-announced COVID death toll. Since December, at least 30 professors at Renmin University have passed away, 29 of whom were members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including former university president Huang Da, Marxist theorist…


12 Peking University Professors Died after New Year, All Were Chinese Communist Party Members

Peking University has been hit hard amidst the latest COVID-19 outbreak, which began at the end of 2022. Between Jan. 1 and Feb. 10, 2023, at least 12 professors at Peking University have died, including Zhai Zhonghe, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Chen Zhanan, former dean of the School of Marxism…


China Lost 15 Academicians in 26 Days, Including Military Weapons Experts

The latest COVID-19 outbreak in China has infected millions of people all over the country. From Jan. 1 to Jan. 26, 15 academicians passed away, including several top military weapon experts, such as renowned nuclear weapons expert Wu Sheng, air defense missile expert Liang Jincai, nuclear submarine chief designer Zhang Jinlin, and mine blasting expert…


Professor Gives ‘Final Assessment’ on COVID Lockdowns

Government-mandated stay-at-home orders, school and business shutdowns, mandatory face masks, and other non-pharmaceutical interventions to stop the spread of COVID-19, had “little to no effect” on mortality while increasing excess and “collateral” deaths, according to a report. “Widespread, economy-wide lockdown policies were a disaster. They had only marginal effects on the ultimate number of deaths,…


Overloaded Crematoriums in Shanghai Points to Surging Death Toll

As tens of millions of Chinese carrying luggage and gifts traveled for long-awaited family reunions, grieving relatives struggled to get their loved ones to their final resting place ahead of the Lunar New Year. Interviews with staff at five funeral homes in Shanghai on Jan. 18 showed the waiting times to get a cremation slot…


Chinese People Say the CCP Forces Doctors and Community Staff to Not List COVID as Cause of Death

Western media have recently reported that doctors in China are discouraged from citing COVID-19 as the cause of death in an attempt to downplay the severity and extent of the ongoing explosive COVID infection wave. A number of Chinese citizens spoke to the Chinese language Epoch Times and shared their personal stories, saying that the…


Populations Dropped in 3 Chinese Counties in 2020

Census data for three counties in China’s southeast Sichuan Province revealed that the population drop during the first year of the pandemic was as high as 22 percent. China conducts a nationwide census survey every ten years, and local governments update demographic figures on their official website yearly. The counties of Tongjiang, Nanjiang, and Pingchang,…