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Zeus posted...

So basically you're conceding that the data is fake, but suggesting that it's important we believe a result based solely on fake data?

No, I'm saying that China's numbers don't matter at all in assessing the domestic situation. A point which I've explicitly stated several times in this topic. I'm really not sure why this is so hard for people to grasp.

Zeus posted...

It could be one death and we'd try to keep it in check. Remember how strongly we responded to Ebola, SARS, and Swine Flu.

There's "we need to keep this in check by employing epidemiologists to track it and throwing resources into developing treatments and vaccines in case it becomes a big deal," and then there's "we need to keep this in check by arresting people that congregate unnecessarily because otherwise the disease numbers are going to explode and hundreds of thousands of people are going to die waiting for ICU beds." This is not simply "we need to react to this because somebody died," this is a massive public health crisis, which is why the response is orders of magnitude stronger than Ebola or H1N1.

Zeus posted...

...however that's still going to be an issue when borders re-open because the Chinese wet-markets that started this and many other recent pandemics are going to be open for business. Until China takes measures to shut those down (which is going to take substantial pressure from the international community), this is going to be a recurring problem where every 5-7 years we'll have another international health crisis originating in China.

None of which has anything to do with China's current number of cases, which is the context I made that statement in. The disease will be gone from China by the time most countries actually consider allowing non-essential travel again, regardless of how much China's currently fabricating numbers. As for the new diseases that will almost certainly be arising from China in the future, maybe a certain president should be reconsidering his decision to fire the team that had been keeping tabs on emergent epidemic candidates in China, since that sounds like something that could be reeeeal useful moving forward. That international pressure you refer to should also be happening, though as I've said many times, that doesn't need to happen until after the crisis has passed.

ninja_lootz posted...

How much is China paying you to defend them?

How do you read what you quoted and possibly get "defense of China" from it?

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