The opacity of the Chinese Communist government obliges responsible outside observers to look for clues to the truth of the coronavirus epidemic, instead of merely repeating official information without question.
The official count from China is 3,277 fatalities from 81,171 infections as of Tuesday, but the Epoch Times noted the troubling disappearance of some 21 million cell phone accounts in China over the past three months – an unprecedented decline that hints at more fatalities than Beijing is prepared to admit.
It should be stated at the outset that we should not be forced to read tea leaves to figure out what really happened in China, especially in the virus epicenter of Hubei province and the city of Wuhan, where Chinese officials are currently making claims of zero new infections that no one seriously believes. While more responsible governments issue troubling warnings of a second wave of infections, severe enough to prompt the re-imposition of quarantine procedures that were only recently lifted, China claims it has no second wave and all of its new coronavirus cases are imported.
According to Imam of Peace!
These mobile phones are from just one Wuhan hospital. Their owners died from #coronavirus and were sent to the crematorium. A very heartbreaking scene. #ChinaLiedPeopleDied pic.twitter.com/O7dM41lOEQ
— Nkiruka Nistoran (@NkirukaNistoran) March 21, 2020
With that in mind, the Epoch Times thought it was a bit odd for 21 million Chinese cell phones to abruptly disappear, given that cell phone usage has been increasing constantly in China for years, and phones have been touted as an important tool for containing the coronavirus epidemic:
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced on March 19 the number of phone users in each province in February. Compared with the previous announcement, which was released on Dec. 18, 2019, for November 2019 data, both cellphone and landline users dropped dramatically. In the same period the year before, the number of users increased.
The number of cellphone users decreased from 1.600957 billion to 1.579927 billion, a drop of 21.03 million. The number of landline users decreased from 190.83 million to 189.99 million, a drop of 840,000.
In the previous February, the number increased. According to MIIT, the number of cellphone users increased in February 2019 from 1.5591 billion to 1.5835 billion, which is 24.37 million more. The number of landline users increased from 183.477 million to 190.118 million, which is 6.641 million more.
According to China’s National Bureau of Statistics, the country’s population at the end of 2019 was 4.67 million larger than in 2018, reaching 1.40005 billion.
Num. of mobile phone users in Feb 2020 suggested something terrible had happened. China Telecom -5.6M, China Mobile -7.25M, China Unicom -1.18M. That’s a net of 14.04M users disappearance #WuhanVirus effect? https://t.co/YbJs5tOfpJ
— pyBY (@PyYpy2) March 21, 2020
The article went on to postulate that some of the landlines might have been shut down as a consequence of the coronavirus quarantines, particularly lines used by shuttered business operations, but the sheer magnitude of the cell phone user decline makes it more difficult to explain. China Mobile, the nation’s largest carrier, reported gaining 3.7 million new accounts in December but then losing over 8 million in January and February, months in which it posted gains of 3.5 million users the previous year.
The Epoch Times considered several explanations for the loss of users, such as migrant workers who kept different cell phones for their home and work cities – necessary due to some of China’s regulations on phone service – abandoning the work phone because it was not needed during the quarantine period, or people generally canceling their phone service because they wanted to save money during the hard months.
On the other hand, the government is currently requiring citizens to use their cell phones to generate “health codes” so their movements can be tracked and permission to travel can be restricted to healthy individuals, so as U.S.-based commentator Tang Jiangyuan put it, it is effectively “impossible for a person to cancel his cellphone.”
“Dealing with the government for pensions and social security, buying train tickets, shopping … no matter what people want to do, they are required to use cell phones,” Tang noted.
The New York Times explained just how heavily Chinese authorities are leaning on those cell phones to monitor their population, and not just for coronavirus infections:
The Times’s analysis found that as soon as a user grants the software access to personal data, a piece of the program labeled “reportInfoAndLocationToPolice” sends the person’s location, city name and an identifying code number to a server. The software does not make clear to users its connection to the police. But according to China’s state-run Xinhua news agency and an official police social media account, law enforcement authorities were a crucial partner in the system’s development.
While Chinese internet companies often share data with the government, the process is rarely so direct. In the United States, it would be akin to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention using apps from Amazon and Facebook to track the coronavirus, then quietly sharing user information with the local sheriff’s office.
The system, which relies on a unit of the immense Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba, assigns users a green, yellow, or red “health code” in the style of a traffic light. Predictably, Chinese citizens find the opaque system cryptic and frightening, since the government has not explained exactly how it works.
“In some cities, residents now have to register their phone numbers with an app to take public transportation,” the Times added.
At the beginning of March, the so-called Alipay Health Code system had been launched in the city of Hangzhou, expanded to 200 other cities, and was on its way to a complete nationwide rollout. The rollout ran into some hitches over the following weeks, from technical glitches to confusion caused by local governments adding their own health codes to the already intimidating system.
A correspondent writing for Bloomberg News on March 18 reported using the system and said it was in the process of being “rolled out nationwide at railway stations, restaurants, pharmacies, and more.” Other reports in China have noted how cell phones are ubiquitous there and are employed for everything from accessing public and commercial resources to telecommuting to school during the coronavirus lockdown.
With this in mind, it might not be completely impossible to get by in Chinese cities without a cell phone at the moment, but it seems unlikely that a huge number of citizens would choose this moment to get rid of their phones.
“Lacking data, the real death toll in China is a mystery. The cancellation of 21 million cellphones provides a data point that suggests the real number may be far higher than the official number,” the Epoch Times concluded.
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LET US BE GUIDED BY OUR INCREASING KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE SCIENTIFIC METHOD FOR TRULY BEFITTINGLY RESOLVING REAL PROBLEMS!
Leo Emmanuel Lochard “ForgivenBuilder” Saturday, March 28, 2020
“The Jeffersonian American”
https://www.eutimes.net/2020/03/21-million-chinese-cellphone-users-disappear-in-3-months-of-coronavirus-pandemic/
Isn’t it possible that there are millions of Chinese people who are rebelling against this invasive feat of espionage, who refuse to be tracked by the Chinese government and thus who decided to get rid of their cell phones and hence, becoming “incognito” to the government that relies on those cell phones for tracing all their movements and activities?
There is also the possible connection between Chinese predominance in 5-G technology as opposed to the rest of the world. How would that be connected to the role of the Virus in slowing down Chinese progressive leadership in that technology worldwide? Would other “interests” be profiting by slowing-down Chinese advances in 5-G technology, which would then, allow them to catch-up in, order to compete in world-wide markets, with the Chinese who have “beaten them” to it?
Speculation, suggestion, preconception, presupposition, or educated surmise must not drive validly-proven reproducible Science and objectively corresponding Logic. But rather, real facts and real events ought to govern data gathering for scientific analysis, after which, an explanation can be theorized for testing in light of the accumulated documented material evidence or objective data, which would then serve, as the material basis, substance, or foundation, for designing a befitting effective practicable solution.
As they say, “there is a method to the madness.” However, it is the “abstractions in our heads” that must agree with the facts already on the ground, and not the other way around.
We cannot have a preconceived invalidated opinion to then try to impose it upon contrary facts that do not support our preconceived educated surmise.
Thus, until the “abstraction in our heads” corresponds to, matches, or supports observed and experienced documented direct material physical proven factual evidence, we cannot declare our theoretical explanation (mental understanding or linguistic explanation) to be scientifically proven-valid or supported by the facts.
In short, our “mental explanations” (theories/concepts/hypotheses) explaining the causes-and-effects relationships embedded within a real event, must first, correspond to the external objective facts corroborating such abstract mental linguistically formed ideas-based conceptual “linguistic frames of explanation.”
Our Mind-contents, components, or constituents, i.e., ideas, thoughts, concepts, hypotheses, theories, etc…, must agree with the real facts, and the “objective facts out-there,” cannot be distorted or manipulated to “fit into” our preconceived mental abstract linguistic explanations. We cannot say “we’ll make them fit” into our own invalid unproven unsupported theoretical explanations. That’s not real Science.
The Human Mind is skilled at “finding iterative patterns” (patterns that repeat themselves, e.g., Revolution and Rotation: Electrons revolve around the atomic nucleus; Planets revolve around the Sun), as well as “anomalies,” or “exceptions” to the regularly observed uniformly executed “iterative uniform patterns,” e.g., Revolution and Rotation: Perihelion Shift of Planet Mercury.
And questions embodied in: “Who, When, What, Where, Why and How,” must be answered in accordance with “the greater number of real facts” embedded within the objectively observed patterns of events — (we cannot know every thing 100%, due to Entropy, which Immanuel Kant refers to a, “Der Ding an sich”), so that, if something else, e.g., a fact or event, does not fit into the objectively observed patterns of events, then, we can ask “why” that “anomaly” is showing up, to then, proceed in determining causes-and-effects relationships proving such an “anomaly.”
A explanatory standard supported by iterative facts fitting into a specific pattern of events, allows us to establish cause-and-effects relationships, that are supported by the facts, while also, allowing us to understand why such an “anomaly” or “exception to the rule,” might have occurred. First, “the pattern;” and then, “the exception.”
With a standard, “deviations from the norm,” are more easily explained or corrected — in terms of cause-and-effects relationships, because such “deviations” are not explainable or “do not make logical sense,” when assessed, in accordance with factual cause-and-effects direct material objective physical evidence supported by corresponding factual events, processes, procedures, means and ends that pertinently fit into “the standard explanatory frame.”
The “deviation” cannot be explained or understood in terms of causes-and-effects relationships as framed within the explanatory standard, which, prescribes that, such an “anomaly” or “deviation” might be caused by other causes-and-effects relationships, that must then, be discovered or found.
That’s the objective scientific-logical application of the Scientific Method — We don’t decide the solution first, (there MUST be “cosmic background radiation”), and then, feverishly attempt to “make it fit” into the fabricated problem for it, (For, There was an initial “Big Bang explosion” singularity!) And then, go out to fudge the “finding” of such “cosmic background radiation” that would then prove there indeed was an initial “Big Bang singularity explosion.” No!
The proper question ought to be: Is there really “cosmic background radiation?” If yes, then, what does that prove?
It is then, that proper scientific analysis begins: “Who, what, where, when, why and How,” in order to determine causes-and-effects relationships accountable for such observably recorded, if any, “cosmic background radiation,” after which, a mental abstract linguistic explanatory frame, can then be designed, assigned, and prescribed for an established scientific understanding of its origin and causes, e.g., the Moon revolves in geo-synchronous orbit around Planet Earth? Then, the Scientific Method of, Why and How, etc… begins: What are causes-and-effects explanations for that observed factual real occurring event? Isaac Newton says, it’s” GRAVITY! And how is “the force of Gravity” proven to explain the closeness or nearness of orbital proximity or “attraction” of the Earth for the Moon, and vice-versa? Because, “Mass attracts Mass.”
But Newton’s Three Laws of Motion were insufficient in maintaining Gravity, as posited by Newton, as “Mass attracts Mass!” as the sole and only explanatory frame of understanding for effecting the observed regularity and constancy of relationships that operate in keeping the Moon in closed proximal orbit around the Earth, as applicable to all Space bodies revolving around other Space bodies!
Why? There is the Perihelion Shift of Planet Mercury that Newton’s explanatory frame of the force of Gravity could not resolve — It took Albert Einstein, for analyzing that “anomaly” or “exception to the rule,” i.e., Planet Mercury’s Perihelion Shift, in determining that, Gravity as simply “Mass attracts Mass” alone, does not explain or cannot explain causes-and-effects relationships accounting for the Shift in Planet Mercury’s orbital path or trajectory — For the Shift is an “irregularity in Motion” that does not correspond to the Moon’s regular, uneventful orbital path around the Earth, as explained by simply positing that the force of Gravity operates as “Mass attracts Mass.”
Thus, Einstein then, posited that not only does the force of Gravity is made manifest in that “Mass attracts Mass,” BUT ALSO in that, “Mass bends or curves Space.” Hence, the closer proximity of Planet Mercury to the Sun, at that specific orbital instance, explains its apparent Shift, due to the Star’s greater Mass “bending” or “curving” the Space where Mercury is located during its orbital trajectory as it displays the Shift.
Thus, for now, at this time in our development of Scientific Knowledge of Astrophysics, a more accurate or more complete explanation of Gravity, is that: Not only does “Mass attract Mass,” but “Mass also curves or bends Space.”
Consequently then, when there is a problem — First, we examine the “stream of factual evidence” forming “a pattern of cause-and-effects relationships” that frame a composition or content of variables and co-determinant parameters constituting the PROBLEM, to then, examine such patterns of cause-and-effects relationships making up the factual objective events, from which, a determination of the actual mental frame of explanation of the problem can then be established as the SOLUTION, that must, then, be supported and corroborated by such discovered “patterns of factual objective of evidence,” e.g., that Planet Mercury demonstrates an orbital Shift because of the expression of the exertion of the greater force of Gravity by the Star, in our Solar System, that “bends” or “curves” the Space within which Mercury is revolving, because of the Sun’s much greater Mass-in-Motion.
Thus, Einstein’s additional explanation for the execution of the Gravity force causing an “irregular Shift” not displayed by the Earth-Moon Complex, or by other revolving Planets acting under the Newtonian definition of Gravity as “Mass attracts Mass,” not only, scientifically complements Newton’s valid explanatory frame for revolving Planets, but also fulfills a more complete understanding of the Gravity force by distinctively demonstrating the causes-and-effects relationships accountable for the “anomalies” or “exceptions to the rule,” i.e., the Perihelion Shift of Planet Mercury, is complementarily explained, because, to complete Newton’s explanation of Gravity, the Gravity force is also expressed as: “Mass bends or curves Space.”
Because all validly proven scientific laws CANNOT contradict each other, but must agree in their explanatory frames consonant with the facticity of the reality that we are living in a consistently stable “UNI-verse” that is in “dynamic System equilibrium,” — and NOT in an “unregulated Chaos-verse,” willy-nilly operating in the absence of scientific principles or proven laws that effect predictable cycles of regularly occurring events, such as, Earth daily-recorded Rotation event, and Earth annually-recorded Revolution event, — while also operating as it objectively executes observably proven regularly predictable Motions and Forces, e.g., Rotation, Revolution, Gravity, Electromagnetism, etc.., such as its “Constant Uniform Motion” being consistently executed in the “Space-Time Continuum” embedded within the operational structures of our UNI-verse — where all scientifically proven reproducible valid scientific laws must also be specifically applicable where all physical conditions are materially similar; and thus, proving that, both the principles or laws discovered by Newton and Einstein, agree with a validly confirmed definition or description of the operations executed by Gravity as it effects “Motion patterns,” pertinent to revolving Space bodies, accountable for both regular orbits and exceptional orbits, i.e., That: Gravity means that, not only does “Mass attract Mass” e.g., Earth-Moon orbital complex, but also that, “Mass curves or bends Space,” e.g., Perihelion Shift of Planet Mercury.
In sum: The “mental abstraction” (“Theory”) formed after examination of the facts must fit the observed reality, (“Problem”), and not the other way around, in order to arrive at crystallizing, forming, and materializing a “fit-and-proper” Solution that does effectively resolve the Problem at hand.
Until then, (That is: until factually observed objective material evidence constituting the core of the problem (real Problem) corresponds to, or “becomes the substance and foundation of abstract understanding” for the conceptual-linguistic mental explanatory theoretical frame (Theory/Hypothesis), there is no Science in accordance with the Scientific method, that can then, be established as a deterministic, validly proven, reproducible, scientific cause(s)-and-effect(s) explanation of the specified problem at hand, for which, then, an appropriate, pertinent, corresponding, befitting, and effective SOLUTION can thereafter be accordingly designed, assigned, and prescribed, and performed.
Thus, the proper order of problem-solving processes that must follow prescriptions by the Scientific Method, are designed for establishing, that:
Truly observed real FACTS ought to determine “the substantial body of material evidence” for DIRECT ANALYSIS of a specified CORE PROBLEM(S), from which is then, derived, the cause(s)-and-effect(s) forming the THEORY/HYPOTHESIS or “conclusive frame of explanation,” sums of which, to then befittingly climax into the corresponding supported actual basis, foundation, and substance of prudently well-thought-out actions, to be taken, performed, and executed, in designing, assigning and prescribing befitting SOLUTION(S) that can then be scientifically APPLIED to objectively provide the corresponding needed RESOLUTION(s) of the originally identified specified PROBLEM(s), i.e., performing, executing, and scientifically applying real solutions that actually effectively do work in truly resolving the Problem at hand.
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