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To: fastpathguru who wrote (36159)3/20/2020 11:14:27 AM
From: neolibRead Replies (1) of 73775
 
The narrative of a Communist country suppressing free speech, especially when it has dire consequences is such a strong magnet that it prevents people with a certain political bent from thinking at all. FUBHO isn't in fact an idiot, from some posts he made way back he published a textbook on supercomputers (IIRC). Which makes it all the more mind-boggling that he posts such idiotic comments without stopping to think about what the USA has done.

Its quite true the Chinese could have been at only 5% of the cases, HK, Singapore, and Japan are all below that slope and by a good deal! But China went first, everyone else had more warning. So to claim that the Chinese results were so awful, and largely due to suppression of the whistle-blowers is nonsense. China had 100 identified cases around the 18th or so of Jan. We had 100 cases around March 3 or 4. So we had 6 weeks of excellent warning, yet our response is shortly going to be worse than China's. Its a WTF moment that anyone would bash the Chinese while overlooking our response. We should be WAY below the Chinese, and indeed several other countries have shown that before us.

And what makes it really funny is that our response is in fact due to politics, in some ways a mirror of the Chinese. Trump and the rightwing media downplayed the virus and a large fraction of those with rightwing leanings bought into that crap. So while government censorship hurt the Chinese, our free press of bullshit as perfected by Fox News and other rightwing nuts is what fucked the USA. How funny!
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