People have tried to blame the drop in the lack of 'migrant workers' going to China, but there aren't anywhere near the numbers needed to explain the drop off. The numbers of subscriptions is steady, and then 21 million are just cancelled for seemingly no reason.
If you have a phone for your child to keep in contact while they go to school, but then they stop going to school, why would you continue paying for mobile data?
If you have a work phone and a private phone, and no longer need to go to work, why pay for the extra mobile data? If you're a boss that pays for mobile data plans for your employees, why would you pay for that extra mobile data?
If you are a migrant worker that can't travel to work, why would you pay for mobile data?
This isn't mobile data. These were contracts for people to use their phones at all. They don't have landlines. 21 million people stopped using their phones period. Coinciding with this were enormous plumes of sulfuric dioxide coming out of random fields outside of the Chinese cities (this compound comes from burning bodies). The CCP again tried to astroturf this information by branding it as false, but it's laughably obvious what the hell actually happened there.
All the news outlets refuting the initial claim (that 21 million died) are based on the same response put out by the CCP owned companies. It's just 1 source from the most bias provider possible (it'd be like asking Trump about whether his golf courses are the best).
The fact is that 21 million phone users disappeared, westerns noticed, and then the CCP scrambled and had 3 of its major companies all just say that the contracts had been cancelled.
If it wasn't true, the CCP wouldn't need to solely rely upon their own word as the fact (i.e they would have actual evidence outside of state-owned companies just spouting propaganda lines). It's disgusting how many Redditors just interpret the word of the CCP as literal fact without questioning it.
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u/GrubJin Jan 03 '21
China lost millions of people to the first wave. Their cell-phone usage proves it. The CCP just lied about it.