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Note that China implemented a draconian lockdown in Wuhan beginning on Jan 22nd, with 571 confirmed cases. By Jan 25th, China declared a Level 1 Health Emergen
by jlmorton 7y ago
Note that China implemented a draconian lockdown in Wuhan beginning on Jan 22nd, with 571 confirmed cases.
By Jan 25th, China declared a Level 1 Health Emergency in 30 out of 31 provinces, and began locking down other provinces.
On Jan 26th, China cancelled all inter-province bus service.
On Jan 30th, China closed the highways between provinces.
Also, all of this nicely coincided with the lunar new year holiday, when the vast majority of the country is already on holiday for 2 weeks, and not going to work, or school.
It's not really comparable.
- blueboo 7y agoTo further illustrate your point: The UK and South Korea reported their first cases on the first day; SK has slowed new cases to a trickle and the UK is facing mass infection.
- meheleventyone 7y agoYeah I watched a documentary on RUV (Icelandic state TV) last night that basically cobbled together the story in Wuhan from people’s cellphone footage. People were literally dragged away by police/medical personnel in door to door temperature testing. Like physically picked up kicking and screaming and bundled into waiting vans. And at the time hospitals were so overloaded sick people were sat in corridors with the dead on the floor beside them covered by sheets. I think most people are pretty oblivious to what draconian means. I know I was! The documentary was Danish and called De advarede om corona-krisen - og forsvandt for those interested. The other thing to note is that a bunch of the people that recorded the footage are now missing which is terrifying in itself.
- sizzle 7y agoThank you for sharing the documentary and shining a light on the insane measures taken out. I can't imagine the fear and uncertainty of getting sick and avoiding detection in China right now to say the least.
- frandroid 7y agoPlease post to this site if English subtitles become available.