[east2west]

This is the standard line from 50-cents (五毛). US and CCP counts deaths differently. One needs only to compare flu statistics to know they are not comparable.

US counts anyone with virus at the time of death while CCP releases no data and on rare occasion they publish statistics, the numbers are several orders of magnitude lower than US numbers.

[whimsicalism]

I am not using any standard lines, I am an internet commentator from the US.

If China were lying about it's numbers, it would be obvious from antibody tests of people traveling from China. It is clear that they are not undercounting deaths by millions.

[philliphaydon]

if a person has a heart problem. In the US it would be something like. “Died of heart problem bought on by covid”. Or “died of covid due to complications caused by heart problem”.

So covid is a causing or contributing factor.

In China. It’s recorded as “heart problem”.

We know this because they do it with seasonal flu. America gets like 20m cases of seasonal flu a year. And like 30k deaths. China gets like 50 cases.

China said that if someone has covid in the family. That’s counted as 1, even if the whole family/household has it. And back in 2020 they leaked a document saying if someone tests positive but doesn’t show symptoms then it’s not recorded as a covid case.