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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by tathougies on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:30PM (#22751292)
Oh stop. China contained the virus with local measures. China has less land area than the United States, which is a very large country. The United States needs sustained regional lockdowns, and other measures in other areas. It does not merit a national response.

To put it in perspective, closing down the nation due to big outbreaks in particular regions is like closing down Darwin Australia due to the initial outbreak in Wuhan.

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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by sizzle on Thursday April 02, 2020 @12:23AM (#22756172)
Is there any way to verify this? How do we know they are telling the truth? Also why is Russia so quiet about their population infection numbers?
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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by tathougies on Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:46PM (#22763585)
These are all good questions. Unfortunately, America is the first big country infected that is friendly to America.
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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by throwaway0888 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @04:55PM (#22753390)
> China has less land area than the United States, which is a very large country.

Isn't China bigger than the States by land area?

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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by tathougies on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @05:15PM (#22753593)
America is slightly bigger. According to Google, USA is 3.797 million sq miles, and and china is 3.705 million square miles.
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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by throwaway0888 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @05:41PM (#22753815)
It's an old infamous error, where they measure water surface for the US but not China in order to appear higher in rankings.

China is larger though by all accounts.

https://www.worldometers.info/geography/largest-countries-in...

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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by tathougies on Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:45PM (#22763579)
I mean, not by much though. They're about equivalent in size.
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