Bill,
I'm wondering if you recall when this all started, the news stories about China's reaction in Wuhan?
The near instantaneous reaction with "quarantine tent city" implementations, and I think I recall (probably wrongly) the reports of mass vaccinations. Finally, accomplishing the near immediate ending of Cvd-19 in China.
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Yup.. You are remembering wrong...
There was no vaccines in China back then.. I fact their vaccines started trialing and implementation after the west.
The suppression of Covid19 was not immediate.. Wuhan was in the worlds hardest lockdown for 3 months.. You couldn't leave your apartment ( as in not even go into the corridor) and the methods to keep people inside were draconian.
The rest of the country was in lockdown for about 5 weeks.. And they dont tollerate people protesting not being able to do what they want.. Their rights etc .. So they managed to supress the virus effectively and introduced strict quaratine protocols for all arrivals and closed borders to foregin entries.
Its not over in china.. Its ruthlessly monitored and acted upon with invasive tracking and immediate quaratining of any cases.. They are doing it in guangzhou right now.
Did it start in CN ..yup... Did they conceal it while they could trying to sort it before it got out.. Yup... Did they deal with the reality of it finally and take meausres to bring it under control... Yup...
Did other countries laugh it off as a developing world issue... Not worry when it was raging in italy etc.. Yup... Did they pay a heavy toll.. Yup...
I think CN handled the outbreak poorly at the start.. And while i cut some slack for intial lack of knowledge they still concealed it after they had an idea what was going on...
However its depressing seeing how poorly most of the western world handled it.. And for all the talk of cn concealing it... You had people in our systems who were well aware of the danger, statistics and risk calling it fake... Calling it a simple flu or the sniffles ans telling people it's a hoax....