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We're all following the same strategy now because of the countries that didn't follow that strategy taught the rest of us what not to do. Imagine if a world go

We're all following the same strategy now because of the countries that didn't follow that strategy taught the rest of us what not to do. Imagine if a world government had responded the way China did. That is, lie about the problem until it gets too big then forcibly lock people into their homes. What reason do we have to think that a world government would do anything different?

TeMPOraL 7y ago
> then forcibly lock people into their homes Turns out, that's the right thing to do. Now almost everyone is doing it to some extent. Also: after China stopped pretending there's no problem and locked down Wuhan, it immediately coordinated the rest of the country to support the virus control efforts in Hubei. The western equivalent of that would be if the UN ordered isolation of Italy, and then ordered the rest of the EU, the UK and the US to ship food, personnel and PPEs to Italy, all in the space of days. But UN doesn't have that power, EU doesn't have that power either, so here we are.
- lliamander 7y ago
  >> then forcibly lock people into their homes > Turns out, that's the right thing to do. Now almost everyone is doing it to some extent. When I say "forcibly locking people in" I mean welding the doors shut[0]. Last I checked that's not something the rest of us are doing. > Also: after China stopped pretending there's no problem and locked down Wuhan, it immediately coordinated the rest of the country to support the virus control efforts in Hubei. Which if they hadn't pretended in the first place, would not have been necessary. So why did they pretend, and why did they stop? My guess is that the deceit was somehow connected to protecting the Chinese government's legitimacy, and that only once news of the outbreak spread and deceit was untenable did they own up to it. A world government has every incentive to suppress any information that may challenge it's legitimacy, and no external entities capable of publicizing the truth. [0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/04/01/coronavirus-covid-19-china-radical-measures-lockdowns-mass-quarantines/2938374001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/04/01/coronav...

TeMPOraL 7y ago

> then forcibly lock people into their homes Turns out, that's the right thing to do. Now almost everyone is doing it to some extent. Also: after China stopped pretending there's no problem and locked down Wuhan, it immediately coordinated the rest of the country to support the virus control efforts in Hubei. The western equivalent of that would be if the UN ordered isolation of Italy, and then ordered the rest of the EU, the UK and the US to ship food, personnel and PPEs to Italy, all in the space of days. But UN doesn't have that power, EU doesn't have that power either, so here we are.

lliamander 7y ago
>> then forcibly lock people into their homes > Turns out, that's the right thing to do. Now almost everyone is doing it to some extent. When I say "forcibly locking people in" I mean welding the doors shut[0]. Last I checked that's not something the rest of us are doing. > Also: after China stopped pretending there's no problem and locked down Wuhan, it immediately coordinated the rest of the country to support the virus control efforts in Hubei. Which if they hadn't pretended in the first place, would not have been necessary. So why did they pretend, and why did they stop? My guess is that the deceit was somehow connected to protecting the Chinese government's legitimacy, and that only once news of the outbreak spread and deceit was untenable did they own up to it. A world government has every incentive to suppress any information that may challenge it's legitimacy, and no external entities capable of publicizing the truth. [0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/04/01/coronavirus-covid-19-china-radical-measures-lockdowns-mass-quarantines/2938374001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/04/01/coronav...