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madadude posted...

China went under heavy quarantine measures back at the last week of January/first week of February when there were only about 13,000 cases. America isn't even near the same level of quarantine, and is already far above that in terms of cases. If America went under heavy quarantine around March 18th when we were at the same level, it wouldn't be as bad. But America is incredibly different culturally and economically so those levels of quarantine aren't even being considered here, so it will keep spreading. At the same time, if China never put those measures into place until a couple weeks later, 100,000 deaths is certainly expected. China was late to respond, but still way earlier and stricter compared to most countries.

I think it is much more appropriate to compare China to South Korea or Japan, which culturally is much more close to China (like face mask usage and gloves on an every-day basis is fairly common already, plus other things of course), and South Korea has managed to contain the virus, and while still increasing, has limited the rate tremendously, and in a similar capacity to what China is reporting, as opposed to America where it is still increasing exponentially. Considering China's measures that they took were much more strict than South Korea, and South Korea has managed to largely decrease the spread, don't see why its absurd to think China didn't do it better. Of course their measures wouldn't fly at all in the Western world, but you can't deny that exactly what they did is exactly what is needed to stop the spread.

Coronavirus has been in China since November though