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To: LindyBill who wrote (722627)	7/31/2020 8:17:33 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794033

Some months ago there was an article written by an American who lived in China with his family during the height of the epidemic. He described some pretty harsh restrictions during the lockdowns. Residents of his apartment building had to have their temperature taken before they could enter the building. Shoes had to be treated with a bleach solution. And that was nothing compared to buildings where they would actually have even a single CoViD case. They had hundreds of millions of people have their phones traced by supercomputers, lest they spend time near another phone, whose owner was infected. In short, they managed to suppress the epidemic. They suffocated the virus. Some other Asian nations did it too. So Korea had 17K confirmed cases, 300 deaths. Japan - a bit more, but ridiculously low compared to Europe. Is this a good thing? If they can keep it suppressed until effective vaccines are available - then yes. If it blows up from under them - then no. But it’s not impossible, and it’s not a crime.