''The US researchers say they have identified an important clue in the reported activities of Wuhans strictly regulated crematorium business.

Typically, these are restricted to operating just four hours each day. This is usually in the morning in keeping with Chinese funeral traditions.

But by January 25, these crematoriums were operating at six times their regulated rate.

They were burning 24-hours-a-day.''

''The report estimates the usual funeral figure for a city of nine million people would be about 136 a day. Escalating operations by up to six times enables about 816 daily cremations. With mobile crematories known to be in action, the peak daily figure could have been as high as 2100.''

And that was in January lol

The study tracked the sale funeral urns to verify these estimates. In the January-March period during which the crematoriums were operating at peak levels, some 36,000 had been distributed.

The report says it took 14 days before the drastic lockdown measures imposed upon Wuhan on January 23 began to take effect. By this time, it says the death toll was already likely in the tens of thousands.

''The estimates of cumulative deaths, based on both funeral urns distribution and continuous full capacity operation of cremation services up to March 23, 2020, give results around 36,000, more than ten times of the official death toll of 2524,'' it reads.

''The magnitude of discrepancy between our estimates based on cremation related data and Chinese official figures in early February, the critical time for response to the COVID-19 pandemic, suggests the need to re-evaluate official statistics from China and consider all available and reasonable data sources for a better understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic,'' the study asserts.

A slew of unconfirmed evidence has since pointed to origins possibly as early as August. This has ranged from unconfirmed US spy-agency wiretap and intelligence reports to data analysis of population movements and purchasing patterns.

This study applies COVID-19 uncontrolled ''doubling rate'' to the newly inferred infected figures to come up with a potential October origin.

''If the doubling time 6.4 is close to the truth, there was significant under and delayed reporting of the COVID-19 epidemic information by China in late January and early February, the critical time for the world to respond and prepare for the pandemic,'' the study finds. ''Given the serious implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, further investigations into this period in China needs to be carried out.''

Don't try to tell me that in Beijing they have somehow managed to stop people spitting all over the street either

Its all about bringing the west down. China served their purpose by kicking it off

''There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.''

This is grimm news, relevent, but Grimm..