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redline65 posted...

Tuberculosis kills 1.5 MILLION people every year and we have a vaccine and treatment for it.

And whenever there's a TB outbreak anywhere in the developed world, you see a lot of the same quarantine and contact tracing measures that have been employed for Covid in an effort to keep it under control. In TB's case, it's more because the disease is so dangerous than because it stands a real chance of overwhelming health care systems with uncontrolled spread (since, as you say, there's a vaccine to slow the spread and treatment that doesn't consist of plopping you in an ICU bed for a month and hoping for the best), but the same principles are applied. It's almost like public health officials have dealt with airborne infectious diseases before and know what they're talking about!

Lokarin posted...

Based on the stats provided in this topic, China's "very aggressive response" back in last December where they had military secret police walling off Wuhan for several weeks is what kept their numbers down.

Odds are, China's numbers are substantially worse than they've let on, because China, but that definitely helped the situation. Having a pre-existing culture of wearing masks to slow the spread of airborne infectious diseases also helped a lot. China didn't have to worry about entire counties refusing to suffer the horrible pain of wearing a bit of cloth on their face.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Funny how they stopped travel from Wuhan to the rest of China at the time, but if you wanted to fly anywhere else in the world, the world was your oyster. Its almost as if China unleashed this plague upon the world intentionally, but far be it from me to accuse the glorious and above-reproach PRC and CCP of any fuckery where this pestilence in concerned. That would just be xenophobic.

Eh, I wouldn't say that it was intentionally spreading it so much as it was protecting themselves while not caring about other places/not wanting to admit they had such a problem. Callously destructive self-interest seems a lot more in line with the CCP's usual behaviour than some grand conspiracy to spread a terrible virus to the rest of the world for no reason.

Wanded posted...

there is no way their numbers are not fabricated

There isn't, but I'd consider their numbers only slightly less trustworthy than America's, given Trump's "our numbers will look better if we just slow down testing!" and subsequent decision to stop letting the CDC report stats independently (which corresponded suspiciously well with a drop in reported case numbers). In truth, most countries have fudged their numbers in some way or another, since it's really not a good look to be struggling to control this.

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