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Crazy that every nation other than china has had 3 big “waves” of Covid cases. Yet somehow china has only had the initial wave of Covid back in early 2020 and n
by bdlowery 5y ago
Crazy that every nation other than china has had 3 big “waves” of Covid cases. Yet somehow china has only had the initial wave of Covid back in early 2020 and nothing else until now.
Very strange.
- vijaybritto 5y agoWhy is handling a medical emergency properly, strange?
- user_named 5y agoChina has had many, many outbreaks in the past two years but they've all been contained locally and haven't spread to the national level.
- phatfish 5y agoNot when you look at the restrictions imposed on citizens, there are comments here about office blocks being locked down for 48hrs and everyone tested. Plus all the regional lockdowns where people were forced to stay indoors that were reported widely in western media. China could simply deal with a virus like COVID-19 far better than the west. They have the political environment for it (more authoritarian), and a society more willing to make sacrifices for the "common good". Personally I would take western democracy/freedoms over an ideal COVID-19 response, but there is no reason to think it didn't work like that in China.
- easytiger 5y ago> They have the political environment for it (more authoritarian), and a society more willing to make sacrifices for the "common good". For a definition of "better" that most sane people wouldn't accept.