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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by mantap on Thursday January 30, 2020 @09:31PM (#22198453)
The way the central government is handling this is impressive, quarantining a city of that size is unprecedented and has bought the world extra time to prepare.

Yes the WHO are playing politics when they focus on the good things China is doing and ignore the bad. But personally I think they are closer to the truth than those who present an entirely negative version of events. China's response has been 70% good :)

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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by heavyset_go on Friday January 31, 2020 @12:03AM (#22199221)
> The way the central government is handling this is impressive

Not really, they jailed the experts who told them that they needed to act quickly, sat on it for a month, and finally did something about it when it was already out of hand.

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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by brigandish on Friday January 31, 2020 @06:06AM (#22200720)
> they jailed the experts who told them that they needed to act quickly

If you don't mind me asking, where did you see that info?

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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by heavyset_go on Sunday February 02, 2020 @03:43AM (#22215921)
I don't have the exact articles on hand right now, but here is a newer article on the suppression: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/world/asia/china-coronavi...
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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by sliken on Thursday January 30, 2020 @10:16PM (#22198695)
It would be more impressive if it wasn't a month after the problem started and after 5M people left.
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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by netsharc on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:21AM (#22201045)
Huh, I would say you're in the wrong thread to claim it's "impressive", if this guy's video is to be believed, it's a whole lot of chaos and lack of supplies...
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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by mantap on Friday January 31, 2020 @10:05PM (#22208353)
We have gone from the first confirmed human-to-human transmission to tens of thousands of cases in something like two weeks. No amount of preparation will prevent chaos and shortages in a situation like this.

I watched the CDC press conference today and saw nothing but fear written on their faces. And that is with far more advanced notice than the Chinese had.

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