"A study published by the Lancet in April, which looked at COVID-related mortality in 74 countries and territories over 2020-2021, estimated there were 17,900 excess deaths in China over the period, compared to an official death toll of 4,820.

Globally, the study estimated 18.2 million excess deaths in 2021-2022, compared with reported COVID deaths of 5.94 million."

With basic math, that means China reported 27% of expected deaths, which compares to the global average of 33%. That's... Within a margin of error, isn't it?

Plus, heads rolled for the mismanagement at the start of COVID. The national government stepped in and fucked up provincial and regional leaders... Unfortunately for you, China doesn't exactly get a glut of global pandemics that it can use to figure out how to stop corruption when reporting crisis numbers... Fortunately for me, they do have to report economics numbers quarterly, and the national government is pretty anal about not letting provinces misreport that nowadays.