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Yes, China is well known for their sophisticated healthcare. A country whose smog regularly makes it hard to see buildings just across the street is somehow bec

by toolz 5y ago

Yes, China is well known for their sophisticated healthcare. A country whose smog regularly makes it hard to see buildings just across the street is somehow becoming the most advanced country in the world at preventing covid transmission even though they ironically don't even share any data to confirm any of these speculations in either direction.

threatofrain 5y ago
> Yes, China is well known for their sophisticated healthcare. A country whose smog regularly makes it hard to see buildings just across the street is somehow becoming the most advanced country in the world at preventing covid transmission even though they ironically don't even share any data to confirm any of these speculations in either direction. You were just talking about how China was not locking down. China is locking down. Now you're just shitting on China by saying "How can we trust China with their secrecy and smog?"
- toolz 5y ago
  because they aren't locking down like they were this is from instagram 4 days days ago in xian, one of their strictest lockdown locations [1] https://i.imgur.com/49QjHJN.jpg https://i.imgur.com/49QjHJN.jpg and this [2] https://i.imgur.com/OugsA59.png https://i.imgur.com/OugsA59.png is from an article talking about the lockdowns in xian. Neither of these pictures could've been taken during their early lockdowns that everyone talks about because people were literally blockaded into their own apartments and homes completely unable to leave.
  - refurb 5y ago
    That's pretty disingenuous considering the Chinese media covered in detail the struggles getting food only a couple weeks ago. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3162244/account-life-locked-down-xian-highlights-costs-zero-covid https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3162244/acc... Journalist Jiang Xue says neighbours have been swapping food to deal with supply shortages and encouraging each other after ‘making it through another day’
    - toolz 5y ago
      if you think I'm being disingenuous then you weren't paying attention during china's first lockdown.

by toolz 5y ago

threatofrain 5y ago

> Yes, China is well known for their sophisticated healthcare. A country whose smog regularly makes it hard to see buildings just across the street is somehow becoming the most advanced country in the world at preventing covid transmission even though they ironically don't even share any data to confirm any of these speculations in either direction. You were just talking about how China was not locking down. China is locking down. Now you're just shitting on China by saying "How can we trust China with their secrecy and smog?"

toolz 5y ago
because they aren't locking down like they were this is from instagram 4 days days ago in xian, one of their strictest lockdown locations [1] https://i.imgur.com/49QjHJN.jpg https://i.imgur.com/49QjHJN.jpg and this [2] https://i.imgur.com/OugsA59.png https://i.imgur.com/OugsA59.png is from an article talking about the lockdowns in xian. Neither of these pictures could've been taken during their early lockdowns that everyone talks about because people were literally blockaded into their own apartments and homes completely unable to leave.
- refurb 5y ago
  That's pretty disingenuous considering the Chinese media covered in detail the struggles getting food only a couple weeks ago. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3162244/account-life-locked-down-xian-highlights-costs-zero-covid https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3162244/acc... Journalist Jiang Xue says neighbours have been swapping food to deal with supply shortages and encouraging each other after ‘making it through another day’
  - toolz 5y ago
    if you think I'm being disingenuous then you weren't paying attention during china's first lockdown.