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Friends were talking about that a year ago. Health authorities in the west were completely ignoring their counterparts in Asia early on. Dismissed the threat un
by Gibbon1 5y ago
Friends were talking about that a year ago. Health authorities in the west were completely ignoring their counterparts in Asia early on. Dismissed the threat until the pandemic blew up in Northern Italy and New York.
A lot of people in HN were arguing that the 0.7% fatality rate reported by Chinese authorities in Feb/20 was because Chinese medical care is bad.
Casual racism is kinda pernicious.
- astrange 5y agoIf you watched reddit all the comments to all news from China (including doctors dying, doctors not dying, hospitals being built or filling up, doctors clapping on TikTok because they'd released their last patients) was complaining about it and calling it fake news from the CCP. They were happy about the same thing from the US though.
- collyw 5y agoDo you remember the posts about people dropping dead in the streets, people skin turning black, or massive cement mixers "disinfecting" streets? There was plenty of fake news going around.
- astrange 5y agoThe people spraying disinfectant everywhere was a bit silly but also not any different from what we were doing. At the time people out here were keeping their mail outside for 3 days and sanitizing their groceries.