In this country, by April 2020 everything was back to normal. Still you had to wear masks on the metro /malls but you were going to the work without masks, while bars & restaurants etc were, and up to this day are, fully functional.
From April 2020 fwd it was, and still is, kind of a big deal if we have 5 cases in a city of 20 million, or even a suspicion of virus, as NP mentioned above. This leaves a window of only 2 1/2 months (February -March 2020 plus a week in January and a week in April) that those 1.7 million should have died. This would have meant massive corps incinerations. Or secretive burials. Mostly incinerations though.
Guess what. That never happen. Not in a country that a 9 or a 90 year old have smartphones. And a people that is constantly filming -posting everything.
To hide 1.7 million deaths in the heart of this country in 2 months and nobody's talking about it, is not even remotely possible. Whoever thinks it is, he simply never put a foot in this country the last 20 years, so writing such articles is either dangerous by stupidity or by design.
I can assure you that people do talk, do complain and their dissatisfaction is quite visible when there is. They did. But that was for a case here, a misstep there, some super strict measures, or even more bizarrely for the lack of stricter ones, but not 1.7 million people disappeared. This would have been a tsunami of dissatisfaction that never was.
By April 2020, people also began to realise the poor (by their standards) handling of the Virus from the Western leaders and happiness was back to normal.
To conclude, maybe the numbers are higher. Maybe 10 times higher. Maybe. But that’s it. To claim that it is ~400 times higher, this is QAnon level of journalism.
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