Here's some actual numbers. Note logarithmic scale.Herainestold wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 9:13 pmThe virus is resurging in South Korea, so it doesn't look as rosy as it did last week.EACLucifer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 8:53 pmChina has admitted to thousands of deaths, and there's almost certainly many more than they have admitted to.Herainestold wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 8:51 pm
Cinemas and nightclubs I can understand.
I really wonder if there is a lot of transmission outside. One virus particle can infect. It can last in air for over 3 hours.
Outside, breezes and wind can create a plume of viruses , for many metres.
China has the best results and they insisted on locking people right inside their dwellings. Outside air is dangerous.
Stationery shops are likely fairly safe.
South Korea has somewhere in the region of 200. South Korea's had it plenty long enough to have hit catastrophic levels, and yet managed to get their infection rate into decline. What's more, they did it without having to disappear any critics, or intimidate any doctor whistleblowers.
Note that it's almost certain China has radically understated numbers - evidence from crematorium demand suggests by as much as an order of magnitude. Other nations have likely undercounted when underwhelmed - but they don't disappear people for questioning the government's lies.
And South Korea hasn't been overwhelmed, so there figures are probably actually true.
China is a grotesque state, perpetrator of numerous human rights abuses including ongoing attempts to destroy an entire culture. Regarding their handling of this virus, aside from causing it in the first place by ignoring the known immense risks and the warning they should have got when they caused the original SARS outbreak, they have also disappeared doctors (e.g. Dr. Ai Fen), destroyed samples and suppressed news as far back as december and continue to suppress research, coupled with strongarming the WHO to pretend it wasn't being transmitted person to person using tactics only available to regimes known to be willing to be evil*, and are now leveraging racism to scapegoat black people, all the while bullying one of the nations most successful at doing this - hint - Taiwan isn't on that chart because they've only had six deaths in total.
So let me make this clear; China did not handle this best. China is not a state to be applauded or defended. If you continue to repeat their stupid talking points (the "the US is failing and won't it be wonderful when China's the top nation" b.llsh.t you posted on threads re American politics), all you are doing is showing that you are on the side of the dictators, the racists, the ethnic cleansers, the liars, the abusers of people both within their country and beyond. You should expect to be treated accordingly.
And if you think it's funny and are just doing it as a windup, consider that puts you in the category of sh.tty teenagers who think upsetting people with swastikas is clever.
*The US is unlikely to disengage from the WHO because it would be very controversial domestically, but even if they did, it would have limited impact on the WHO's access to data from the US as the US has a free press. Not so totalitarian China.