Chinese residents report an increase in millennium deaths amid respiratory infections

Amidst the distrust of Chinese administration data on infectious diseases and vaccinations, anecdotal reports from Chinese residents and healthcare professionals suggest an extraordinary number of deaths among millennials this winter season.

The National Statistics Bureau in Beijing does not regularly publish data on mortality rates. Analysts and the public often resort to anecdotal evidence for the administration’s records of publishing unreliable data, including underreporting COVID-19 infections in early 2020.

Also speaking to the Chinese version of the Epoch Times in early March, Chinese residents of several states whose full names have not been mentioned due to safety concerns have been found to have had many deaths between those born in the 1980s and ’90s’ and those born in the 1980s and 1990s. Some of them expressed suspicion that death could be caused by side effects of Covid-19 vaccination.

Experts said in the Epoch era that the reasons why young people are dying at higher rates include the Covid-19 pandemic, side effects of vaccination, stress, and weak immunity following other infectious diseases such as the highly pathogenic avian flu, which the administration underreports.

According to a doctor from China’s Dong Jiangsu province who uses the alias Zhang Liang, there have been many sudden deaths from heart attacks and strokes in people in their 30s and 40s since the Covid-19 pandemic, but it is difficult to know the extent of the deaths.

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Regarding the possibility that this caused the death, Zhang said: They’re all saying that, but they can’t say it publicly. Collection of these data is also not permitted. The top-level (doctors) may have (information), but ordinary doctors don’t have access to them,” he told The Epoch Times.

According to Zhang, “After the Covid-19 pandemic, few people are healthy. Most people are under subhealth and the physical indicators are a little abnormal. What’s more, 70-80% of people have nodules in their bodies, especially pulmonary nodules.

Li, a resident of Guangzhou in southern China, said many young and middle-aged people around him have passed away this year.

“Many people around me suffered from vomiting, diarrhea, fever, cough and chronic cough. They have been injecting for 10 days or half a month and haven’t recovered yet,” Li said.

“Many of the people who suddenly died were young in their 20s and 30s, some in their 40s and 50s. They received many doses of vaccines, three or four shots, booster shots,” he told The Epoch Times.

Li, from Linfeng, in the West Sea province of China’s northern China, said two of her 30-something colleagues died suddenly while a state-owned company was demanding vaccinations from staff.

She said the company has an eight-hour working schedule, suggesting that staff is unlikely to be victims of overwork deaths.

Wang, a resident of Liupanshui city in Gituhou province in southwestern China, said he has attended four funerals this year in the wake of severe respiratory infections since the Chinese New Year in late January, when many people died from developing pneumonia.

“Many people died during the Chinese New Year. Our local funeral homes usually cremate two or three people a day. Over 20 bodies had to be cremated a day during the period,” he said.

“Some people in their 40s and 50s have fever, developed pneumonia and just died,” he said. He added that more people died in the year when Covid restrictions ended.

According to Wang, in the local area, all industries except hospitals are struggling. “Their business is booming. Hospitals are busier than shopping malls,” he said.

Li, a villager from Zhoukou in northern China’s Henan province, also told during the Epoch era that local epidemics were raging this winter, and that young people were dying in surrounding villages.

“Many people had severe symptoms with fever and colds, and died one after another. Hospitals were overcrowded, and there were not enough beds. People died in the waves. Many people suffered from pneumonia, heart attacks and strokes. Many died suddenly in their 30s and 40s,” he said.

As the economy slowed, many locals carefully buried the deaths to save cremation costs, Lee said.

“They were buried under the family’s land. If no one reports them, the government will do anything.”

Zuo, a resident of Southwest Sichuan, also reported a crowded hospital and death among young people.

“A lot of people around me have recently passed away. Many of them have been in the 80s and four or five have died, both in their 40s and 50s,” he said.

“They were said to have died from the flu, but they had similar symptoms as Covid-19 patients,” he said, adding that the victim had no physical vulnerability.

“During the Chinese New Year, the funeral home was unable to schedule all funerals. (Family) had to use queues, bribery (funeral home staff), or connections. Many people have buried the dead. In rural areas, as long as there is land, they can fill the dead.”

Possible reasons

US-based current affairs commentator Tang Jingyuan told the Epoch Times on March 11 that vaccine-induced heart problems are one of the main reasons “after the ’80s” are dying at higher rates.

Another important factor is that people born in the 1980s are the first generation without siblings due to the one-child policy of the Chinese administration, and the average couple must take care of four parents and at least one child.

Generations “need to be responsible for more social and family duties and jobs. This increases mental and physical stress across the age group. This may also be a major factor in the particularly high mortality rates of generations since the ’80s,” he said.

Sean Lin, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Feitian College and a former US Army microbiologist, said the side effects of vaccinations have had a wide impact on young people and middle-aged people in China. The increase in deaths is likely to be caused by weak immunity following the COVID-19 pandemic and other infectious diseases, and the scale of such highly pathogenic avian influenza may be hidden by the Chinese regime.

According to two workers in China’s disease prevention and control system, the administration is covering up the severity of the outbreak of respiratory diseases in the country. One worker also said that human-to-human transmission of H5N1 avian flu or avian flu is limited.

Enforcement of mortality claims

Anecdotal reports of the deaths of millennials came as Chinese police cracked down on viral videos that claimed about one person had died in 20 cases “after the ’80s.”

This post argues that the figure was calculated by comparing population data from the 2020 Seventh Census with estimated births in the 1980s. The Epoch Times were unable to verify official data.

The Newcomer of the National Media, cited Li Ting, professor at the School of Population and Health at Renmin University, saying the figures are seriously inconsistent with the facts.

The Seventh Census summary report published by Beijing’s National Statistics Office does not include a detailed breakdown of the Chinese population for 2020. This estimates the population size for ages 15-64, including the 80s, when they are currently 36-45 years old.

In a blog published on China’s social media platform WeChat on March 3, the Department of Public Security’s online security department said it had fined Xia for posting the video. Police say two other people were given “administrative punishments” and six were warned. No penalties were specified, but can include warnings, fines, prohibitions, or administrative detention for up to 20 days.

Wen Xin, Xiong Bin, and Luo Ya contributed to this report.