>> 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

>> 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...