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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by clouddrover on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:53AM (#22749215)
> Do we have any reason to disbelieve China's numbers are orders of magnitudes wrong?

Crematoriums in Wuhan seem to be doing more than the usual number of cremations:

https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/88435z/wuhans-crematorium...

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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by NhanH on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @11:45AM (#22749879)
Crematoriums tend to operate at capacity, just 5-10% increases in death rate would easily overwhelm them.
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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by clouddrover on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:04PM (#22752404)
Seems unlikely. An extra 5-10% would be an extra hour of operation a day.
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