Russia Has One of the World’s Highest Excess Death Rates

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Experts say the indifference can be explained by lack of reporting on the > insert anything bad about the government here < on state-controlled media.

I guess we’re not so different after all.

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Eh, not sure:

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Same shit, different ‘culture’

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:man_shrugging: Living… dead… what’s the difference?

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In context very little, both are being actively silenced by their respective governments, forcibly ejected from the public eye for reporting the ‘wrong’ kind of news.

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Funny though, they always seem to be dissidents who get clobbered.

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I’ll have to Google “excess death”. More than expected? More than capacity can handle?

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Beyond the yearly average

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Ah yes. Hmmm.

New Zealand Police GIF by Acorn TV

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Anyone can cook the books for a story.

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Exactly… the big cover up of deaths in China? At least Brazil is fairly transparent, albeit not going exactly great. I feel quite lucky in the UK, but then maybe that’s an illusion too.

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