10 ms·

https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/voc-news/2020/4/5/blame-the-chinese-communist-party-for-the-coronavirus-crisis https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/voc-news/20

https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/voc-news/2020/4/5/blame-the-chinese-communist-party-for-the-coronavirus-crisis https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/voc-news/2020/4/5/blame-t... It’s a hilarious read: > If Beijing had given the real number of infected people and deaths, other countries would have recognized the danger, and taken necessary steps. No matter what transpired, eventually there was a warning, and most countries still took no steps until they had high numbers themselves. Hell, Italy could have been the warning and it would have helped.

hkmaxpro 6y ago
A Nature paper [0] suggests that 66 or even 95 percent of the cases could be avoided, had China acted on the coronavirus 1 to 3 weeks earlier [1]. [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2293-x https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2293-x [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/research-finds-huge-impact-of-interventions-on-spread-of-covid-19 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/research-finds...
- Semaphor 6y ago
  But that paper, at least in the abstract, talks about preventable deaths in China. The anti-communists talk about China being to blame for the deaths in other countries because those countries had no warning.
  - hkmaxpro 6y ago
    The paper was posted on March 13 [0], before Covid-19 peaked outside of China. Of course it didn’t focus on other places. The abstract shows the authors believe its findings have relevance elsewhere: > These findings improve our understanding of the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19, and will inform response efforts across the world [0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.03.20029843v3 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.03.20029843v...
    - Semaphor 6y ago
      But what does that have to do with countries having plenty of warning and doing next to nothing? I feel like you replied to the wrong poster.

hkmaxpro 6y ago

A Nature paper [0] suggests that 66 or even 95 percent of the cases could be avoided, had China acted on the coronavirus 1 to 3 weeks earlier [1]. [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2293-x https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2293-x [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/research-finds-huge-impact-of-interventions-on-spread-of-covid-19 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/research-finds...

Semaphor 6y ago
But that paper, at least in the abstract, talks about preventable deaths in China. The anti-communists talk about China being to blame for the deaths in other countries because those countries had no warning.
- hkmaxpro 6y ago
  The paper was posted on March 13 [0], before Covid-19 peaked outside of China. Of course it didn’t focus on other places. The abstract shows the authors believe its findings have relevance elsewhere: > These findings improve our understanding of the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19, and will inform response efforts across the world [0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.03.20029843v3 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.03.20029843v...
  - Semaphor 6y ago
    But what does that have to do with countries having plenty of warning and doing next to nothing? I feel like you replied to the wrong poster.