[fapjacks]

Be advised that there are many posts on Chinese social media claiming the crematoriums are backlogged with people whose listed cause of death is "viral pneumonia" (or just "pneumonia") because hospitals are turning away so many and diagnostics are not catching up. Do not take statistical reporting for granted: The numbers are a best case scenario of definitive knowns. Also, bioweapons have as diverse a variety of use cases as any other class of weapon: They don't need to kill half of a population to be effective weapons.

[xvector]

While I think China is hiding the number of infected, it'd be pretty hard to hide the proportion of dead to infected as the virus has already escaped Wuhan.

[ngcc_hk]

The question is not hard but no one really know. Would you test a body died recently?

China is not very reliable in gdp (one top guy told us to look at the electricity and we look at pollution). It is very hard to get stat.

So far touch wood no one died outside of China. The death rate should not be high unless the alternative saying hiv death rate after 1 month is 0%.

The conspiracy theory in a proper sense is accidentally leaked for an experiment, like sars virus leaked (later and during study) by Beijing level 3 lab.