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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday March 21 2020, @05:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the some-positive-news-for-a-change dept.

A new tweet from @CGTNOfficial China Global Television Network, or CGTN, is a multi-language, multi-platform media grouping. reports

#BREAKING#China reports 34 #COVID19 infections on Wednesday, all are cases that originated abroad, with 8 more deaths Chinese mainland reports zero new domestically transmitted #COVID19 cases


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @04:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @04:18PM (#973861)

    Yes,

    1. China covered it up
    2. China fully mobilized against the virus spread, with mandatory lockdowns, full hazmat suits for medical workers, etc. Those who were involved in the coverup were removed from their positions / punished.
    3. China which does not have socialized medicine, finally made treatment of COVID-19 free. There was a really sad blog post by a Chinese doctor in Wuhan telling of a pregnant woman who's family had already spent $35,000 on her treatment having the plug pulled on her two days before the announcement of free medical care. Yes, China has a barbaric medical system like the US.
    4. China tested the fuck out of the population, and isolated just those who were ill, as they returned folks to work. And, everybody wears masks, tries to maintain a small distance from others, etc.
    5. China's new cases are all cases from repatriated folks -- totally believable, since they actual pulled out all the stops to stop the spread of the virus.

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    1. The US president gutted the U.S.'s pandemic response group, and moved the US strategic pharmaceutical reserve to a government department that is not competent to manage it. He also eliminated the group that looks for outbreaks of novel diseases anywhere in the world, as an early warning system so we can *avoid* a pandemic by responding early.
    2. The US president pretended that all was well, and even stated that the virus was a hoax.
    3. The US lied about mask wearing being ineffective to try to keep limited supplies available for medical workers. Even primitive masks are effective in reducing spread, if worn by the infected individual, and surgical (not N95) masks have proven effective in protecting medical teams in S. Korea and Taiwan (where they did not go full hazmat suit with N95 masks and goggles like China did, but have had no transmission to health care workers).
    4. The US president got worried as the stock market fell, and tried to infuse a ton of money, but did nothing to help stop the spread, nor help those who were ill.
    5. More money to try to shore up equities.
    6. More money to try to shore up equities.
    7. Pinky finger to mouth.... Hmmmm, perfect opportunity to destroy Social Security, he he he. We will have a payroll tax holiday, so we can do nothing for folks who are now unemployed, and do nothing to help folks pay for treatment, and do nothing to help slow the spread of the disease... But, we will give a big chunk of money away to those with high incomes, AND we will be able to claim SS is insolvent later, and finally kill all those poor grandmas we've always fantasized about killing. he he he.
    8. We will have a partial lockdown of the borders, but still allow folks from countries led by far-right political allies, even if they are hotbeds of the disease.
    9. Hospitals in the hardest hit areas of the US are reporting that they have run out of supplies, and have teams making things like homemade surgical masks.
    10. No testing to speak of yet, but the US did dispatch 500,000 test kits from Italy on a navy ship, to distribute.
    11. A few US states take some actions to slow the spread.
    12. Still no widespread testing, and no action from the federal government other than assigning two navy hospital ships to areas of large outbreaks on the request of the governors of California and New York.
    13. US President orders factories to produce medical supplies under wartime rules. A little concerning when noting this presidents admiration of authoritarian dictators. But, hey, it is something.
    14. Some cognitively challenged Americans still believe the imbecile in the white house, when he said that COVID-19 was a hoax, or at least nothing to worry about, and are going about their lives as if nothing is happening--spreading the illness. The US is currently seeing case counts double every 4 - 6 days, and it is rocketing up on the COVID-19 infection rate scoreboard.

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    We have incompetent morons leading our nation who only dream of wealth and power. China has the same sort of power/wealth hungry scumbags leading their country, but at least their scumbag elites are intelligent and competent.

    TLDR, I believe it.

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