A former White House adviser said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is covering the truth of the COVID-19 situation in China for fear of its reputation being undermined.
According to a Peking University study, the latest COVID-19 outbreak in China is estimated to have affected 900 million Chinese, with approximately 80 percent displaying severe symptoms. Following worldwide pressure for statistics and transparency, Chinese health officials acknowledged on Jan. 14, 2023, that roughly 60,000 COVID-related deaths had occurred in hospitals throughout the country in December 2022.
Atlas cited a widening gap between official figures and the number of reported cremations to prove his point.
“Even though there were reports of a lot of cremations ... they implied that there were no death numbers coming out,” he said.
Another resident in the nearby city of Suzhou described the crowded condition at Suzhou Funeral Home as akin to the city’s most famous shopping street, which is always packed.
China’s Elderly Population
Atlas said that China’s elderly will be hit hard by COVID, citing the situation of the United States as an example.“If you look at China’s population, they have a really very, very dangerous demographic in their country for this illness because they have an enormous population of older people,” Atlas said.
According to statistics, adults aged 65 and older accounted for 14.9 percent of China’s population in 2022.
Atlas believes with the zero-COVID policies that had been implemented over the past three years, the communist regime failed to protect this high-risk group.
“They locked everybody down instead of doing a lot of protection, specifically, of the high-risk population, which are the older, frail people,” He said.
“They should have done targeted protection from the beginning, they should have done everything they could to protect the very, very old people, and they should not have destroyed people and locked up their population in a very barbaric level,” he added.
Its excessive focus on “clearing” the virus and cases over the past three years has allegedly strained China’s medical infrastructure.
Hospitals in China are overwhelmed and lack intensive care unit beds, ventilators, drug stockpiles, and other health care tools.
With the strain on the hospitals and the lack of transparency from China, Atlas predicts “a very tragic loss of life in their population because they have so many elderly.”