The new transparency index (T-index) shows that the official pandemic fatality figure is deeply flawed in many countries, starting with Russia Once a war starts, propaganda becomes a chief weapon, so it is impossible to know the number of casualties from only one source. But even before the Russian-Ukrainian war, in the fight against the COVID 19 pandemic the truth seems to have been among the first casualties. Not only had a real information war been waged around the source of the virus – after all, this remains controversial after one hundred years even for the ‘Spanish’ flu- or its label (‘Chinese virus” versus Corona versus COVID 19), but the death count as well has become the object of many controversies. Officially, Russia had a moderate number of casualties. By other estimates, however, it is leading the world in the […]