zackster I think it is far more likely that they just lied about their death toll.
Yet neighbouring countries like Japan and South Korea have also had much lower death tolls than the west.
A significant part of it will have been obesity, but there could also be some chance genetic factors for example which we don’t yet know about.
zackster Its a massive gamble to release something like this on purpose and assume it will workout in your favor.
For sure it would have been a massive gamble, but when you see what the Chinese do in cases like the Uighyurs I don’t think it’s impossible to imagine them even running tests on their own people, say other prisoners, to see what differing effects various viruses might have.