They new about it for weeks, 5M people left Wuhan, and then they started the quarantine.

You think that should be praised?

Compared to the US response to H1N1 in 2009, a resounding YES!

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/somethings-right-here-folks-l...

It's so easy to simply arm chair general this kind of event isn't it?

Right now most of China is locked down... look at it this way, people are genuinely suffering and dying over there in droves and not so much over here. I can at least be appreciative of their sacrifice.

> look at it this way, people are genuinely suffering and dying over there in droves and not so much over here. I can at least be appreciative of their sacrifice.

They aren't being sacrificed by the central government for us, they are being sacrificed to protect the rest of China. That has incidental benefits for not-China, but its not China sacrificing for not-China, its China sacrificing parts of China for China.

And i imagine nobody wanted to tell everyone not to come home for lunar new year...

Credit? They only acted because they had to. Doctors were arrested weeks before for "spreading rumors". Their inability to act has led to this thing spreading beyond their borders.

Would this quarantine happen in your country or any Western country? I doubt it.

Not arrested. They were given a warning and asked to sign a sort of declaration that they agreed what they said were wrong then were sent to home. Still bad but not the same as being arrested.

Compared to their idiotic response to SARS this is at least better.

Agreed, local govt was very poor, federal has been excellent and I’m probably the biggest China critic here

However, it's futile unless it reflects in our purchase (and employer) preferences.