> While the pandemic’s final human toll is still unknown, those who have perished from the outbreak must be included in the global count of 100 million deaths at the hands of Communism.
> If Beijing had given the real number of infected people and deaths, other countries would have recognized the danger, and taken necessary steps.
No matter what transpired, eventually there was a warning, and most countries still took no steps until they had high numbers themselves. Hell, Italy could have been the warning and it would have helped.
But that paper, at least in the abstract, talks about preventable deaths in China. The anti-communists talk about China being to blame for the deaths in other countries because those countries had no warning.
The paper was posted on March 13 [0], before Covid-19 peaked outside of China. Of course it didn’t focus on other places.
The abstract shows the authors believe its findings have relevance elsewhere:
> These findings improve our understanding of the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19, and will inform response efforts across the world
https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/voc-news/2020/4/5/blame-t...
https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/press-releases/2020/4/10/...
> While the pandemic’s final human toll is still unknown, those who have perished from the outbreak must be included in the global count of 100 million deaths at the hands of Communism.