Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 02:40:08 AM

Well, China was already on total lockdown way ahead of any other country in the world. When the rest of the world was doing their usual day to day business, China was already very much aware of how the virus is a world more infectious than other viruses. And by the time the rest of the world realized things are getting serious and started to act on it, China has already built hospitals, ramped up production of health equipment and other efforts to curb the spread, and so on.

Actually this is what the Communist Party wants you to think.

China had one of the worst and delayed actions in the world. Let's look at the numbers, not at bs propaganda.

The first case was recorded on December 1.
16 December 46 cases.
On December 31 China says there is no "human to human transmission"
19 January two cases outside Wuhan confirmed.
24 January, Wuhan enters lockdown.

It took the Chinese between 55 and 39 days to lock Wuhan.

Let's look at Italy:
First confirmed case: 31 January
Lombardy enters lockdown 8th of March
That is 38 days.

If we look at Spain mainland, the reaction was way faster
The first case on February 26, lockdown 16th of March, only 20 days.

So, no, China had one of the worst responses, but it's way ahead of everybody at propaganda.

Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 02:40:08 AM

Furthermore, the country's totalitarian system cannot be overemphasized in their relative success in controlling the spread of COVID-19. When the leaders say stay at home, everybody stays at home. When the leaders order shops and everything to close down, everything will follow. When the leaders say gatherings are not allowed, there are no gatherings. And when the leaders say farmers should continue producing food despite the lockdown, they submit without a question asked. The populace is fully subservient to their leaders. Well, at least in times of pandemic, this must help a lot.

Welcome to bitcointalk, I'm sure you're feeling like home here with those ideas!
How about this: if the government wouldn't have lied nothing would have happened?

Quote from: Jawhead999 on Today at 06:01:03 AM

Quote from: pugman on April 24, 2020, 11:56:31 PM

Okay so, pretty much 90% of the world is in lockdown. China, the main source of the virus, isn't on lockdown. How did China manage to withstand the virus out of nowhere, while it was a goddamn plaguefuck of a place for ~3 to 4 months?

Note : China ends the lockdown now, so the new count of countries are in lockdown is 48. And the total countries in worldwide is 195
The percentage of countries are in lock down is : 48 x 100%/195 = 24.61%

Just India, Indonesia, Russia, and Germany on that list make 24% of the world population.
Countries outside the top 100, with dependencies and autonomous territories, barely have the population of Pakistan.

Quote from: exstasie on Today at 07:36:00 AM

What needs to be done? Stop the farming and consumption of wild animals? The government has already banned it, although people are doubtful the state can enforce the ban effectively. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/05/asia/china-coronavirus-wildlife-consumption-ban-intl-hnk/index.html

In truth we can't be sure the Wuhan market was even the source of the outbreak: https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-outbreak-september-not-wuhan-1498566

They will not stop anything, they've claimed to do the same in 2003 and we're back in the same situation.
Some people look at this wildmeat trade from the wrong perspective, a lot of my friends think they eat those because it's cheap meat when it' actually the opposite. Let's ignore the trafficked meat, like the now-famous pangolin which was sold at around 700$ a kilo, let's look at...rats!

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“The price of rats is also good, at least 160 yuan per kilogram. Restaurant demand often exceeds supply.” Pork, China’s staple meat, currently trades at around 30 yuan per kilogram

At 25$ per kilo is just as expensive as the special matured beef steak here in Europe.

Those that eat this meat are not the poor, guess who can afford those delicacies?The ones that can also make the laws!
When raw bear bile sells for 24k/$, you think they will stop this trade?
If it makes money and it's sought by the elites, they will never ban it. Never!