okay but like we don't actually believe this, right? Critical support means critical support - this reporting is blatantly false, this pans out to a death rate of 0.0015%, for the same disease that Cuba reports an 0.76% death rate for, which is over 500 times the fatality rate - North Korea is obviously either deliberately misreporting or has no idea what's going on inside their country.
Critical support means acknowledging that they're doing well despite ruthless embargo, sanction, and unaided reconstruction after a genocidal war. Uncritically claiming they're best in the world by orders of magnitude ignores their hardships and material conditions and is 100% fantasy, 0% support.
I know some of y'all believe this so this is for the lurkers mainly, if the post was /s then please ignore me
Yeah one of those numbers has to be false because that percentage just doesn’t make sense. Honestly I’d have believed them if they had said a lower number of cases and that number of deaths, but together they don’t make sense.
lets put it this way - in America, the CDC estimates 9.4 million – 41 million illnesses, 100,000 – 710,000 hospitalizations and 4,900 – 52,000 deaths annually between 2010 and 2022 for influenza. Assuming the highest possible case count and the lowest possible death count, we get the lowest case mortality rate at 4,900 deaths per 41 million cases, which is 0.012% mortality. That means that North Korea's mortality rate for COVID is over 7 times lower than America's most charitible estimated mortality rate for the flu. This just isn't possible.
It's possible, but that would have to mean they have the capability to report a case count of nearly 25% of their 26 million population, but also lack the infrastructure to report any more than a hundred deaths, which strikes me as very unlikely.
okay but like we don't actually believe this, right? Critical support means critical support - this reporting is blatantly false, this pans out to a death rate of 0.0015%, for the same disease that Cuba reports an 0.76% death rate for, which is over 500 times the fatality rate - North Korea is obviously either deliberately misreporting or has no idea what's going on inside their country.
Critical support means acknowledging that they're doing well despite ruthless embargo, sanction, and unaided reconstruction after a genocidal war. Uncritically claiming they're best in the world by orders of magnitude ignores their hardships and material conditions and is 100% fantasy, 0% support.
I know some of y'all believe this so this is for the lurkers mainly, if the post was /s then please ignore me
Yeah one of those numbers has to be false because that percentage just doesn’t make sense. Honestly I’d have believed them if they had said a lower number of cases and that number of deaths, but together they don’t make sense.
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What's a source for more accurate info?
Honestly I don’t think a public source exists but I’m sure Chinese/Russian intelligence has a better idea
What's the omicron rate? Most of this happened with omicron
lets put it this way - in America, the CDC estimates 9.4 million – 41 million illnesses, 100,000 – 710,000 hospitalizations and 4,900 – 52,000 deaths annually between 2010 and 2022 for influenza. Assuming the highest possible case count and the lowest possible death count, we get the lowest case mortality rate at 4,900 deaths per 41 million cases, which is 0.012% mortality. That means that North Korea's mortality rate for COVID is over 7 times lower than America's most charitible estimated mortality rate for the flu. This just isn't possible.
Could also be poor reporting, they don't have a very extensive system in North Korea. They have a similar issue as rural China does.
It's possible, but that would have to mean they have the capability to report a case count of nearly 25% of their 26 million population, but also lack the infrastructure to report any more than a hundred deaths, which strikes me as very unlikely.