Great article on the real effect of Covid in Russia, China and Iran

Pretty grim. And all three countries have lied, lied, lied. Well worth looking at the full article. Takes 8-10 minutes to read.

... if you think COVID-19 has inflicted great pain on Americans, wait until you see the catastrophic impact on the populations of these countries with hostile regimes.

Here's the short version just on Russia. There's much more, and plenty on the other two countries.

According to the official government statistics, Russia suffered a random and unexplained surge of deaths from pneumonia, diabetes, nervous-system diseases, and old-age deaths in 2020 that had nothing to do with COVID-19. And earlier this year, the Rossat, or Federal Statistics Service, stopped giving monthly updates on death statistics. In the official statistics, Russia’s death count ranks a distant sixth worldwide, with 22 percent of the United States’ more reliable 622,000. The excess-death number would put Russia at 76 percent of the U.S. death count.

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Kremlin-aligned Russian commentators, desperate to shift the blame from the government, are contending that the current outbreak is evidence of Western biological warfare against the Russian people.

COVID-19 is particularly dangerous for those who are heavy smokers and heavy drinkers, who are more likely to have other comorbidities or health problems. Hey, it’s a good thing Russia doesn’t have a lot of those, huh?

The Russian people are suffering, much worse than they needed to, because of the persistent dishonesty and denial of Putin and his regime.