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Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1576002 As Radio Free Asia reported, residents in Wuhan are telling a much more dire story than the 2,500 number it gave to the world. For one, the incinerators have been working around the clock and handing out urns of ashes to 500 families a day: Since the start of the week, seven large funeral homes in Wuhan have been handing out the cremated remains of around 500 people to their families every day, suggesting that far more people died than ever made the official statistics. “It can’t be right … because the incinerators have been working round the clock, so how can so few people have died?” an Wuhan resident surnamed Zhang told RFA on Friday. “They started distributing ashes and starting interment ceremonies on Monday,” he said. Seven funeral homes currently serve Wuhan — a huge conurbation of three cities: Hankou, Wuchang and Hanyang. The calculations on Chinese social media began in earnest: Another popular estimate is based on the cremation capacity of the funeral homes, which run a total of 84 furnaces with a capacity over 24 hours of 1,560 urns city-wide, assuming that one cremation takes one hour. This calculation results in an estimated 46,800 deaths. A resident of Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital, said most people there now believe that more than 40,000 people died in the city before and during the lockdown. Residents speculate that the reason China is attempting to withhold the real number of deaths is that they want the people to ease into the reality of the situation. However, from the perspective of this free American, it’s clearly China’s attempt to control the global narrative about itself. The cremations of so many people are giving away the real story, and the real story is that the numbers are much higher than China is admitting. According to RFA, funeral homes report on cremations to Chinese authorities twice a day. “Every funeral home reports data on cremations directly to the authorities twice daily,” said a source close to the provincial civil affairs bureau. “This means that each funeral home only knows how many cremations it has conducted, but not the situation at the other funeral homes.”