2019 Global Health Security Index: Countries Ranked by Preparedness for Pandemic

Re:2019 Global Health Security Index: Countries Ranked by Pr... by senectus1 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @10:26PM (#28069055)

I dont believe the China numbers.

But they did go full authoritarian on their own people... I remember reading in the very early days there were accounts of the state police WELDING people into their apartments in Wuhan to stop them going out for food etc.

Scary stuff. I wonder how those people feel about those actions now, over a year later and 600k+ deaths in the US.

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Re:2019 Global Health Security Index: Countries Ranked by Pr... by Causality1 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:12PM (#28069391)

Accounts? There's plenty of videos from Chinese people receiving food deliveries in apartments with bigass levers welded to the door that only allowed it to open about five inches.

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Re:2019 Global Health Security Index: Countries Ranked by Pr... by graeme on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:05PM (#28069344)

Iirc the welding was of secondary entrances, forcing all buildings to have a single entrance for easier monitoring. Still extreme, but not quite what was reported.

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Re:2019 Global Health Security Index: Countries Ranked by Pr... by mandelbrotwurst on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @10:39PM (#28069162)

How did food get into the places that were welded shut?

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Re:2019 Global Health Security Index: Countries Ranked by Pr... by asah on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @10:42PM (#28069184)

https://www.google.com/search?q=china+food+delivery+quaranti...

(food delivery through openings)

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Re:2019 Global Health Security Index: Countries Ranked by Pr... by senectus1 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @10:44PM (#28069195)

yeah I don't know.

I did see some site unrelated reports that the gov were organizing deliveries. I would hope they were not letting those that they felt the need to "jail" in their own homes, starve to death...

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Re:2019 Global Health Security Index: Countries Ranked by Pr... by bootsup on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:39PM (#28069597)

Three minute read about low tech quarantine management in Beijing in May 2020. I had hoped to collect many more, but failed: http://agk.sdf.org/lib/lrm/lrp20beijing.html

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Re:2019 Global Health Security Index: Countries Ranked by Pr... by opportune on Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:25AM (#28069855)

Given that it worked is it really that bad?

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Re:2019 Global Health Security Index: Countries Ranked by Pr... by perryizgr8 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:58AM (#28070036)

Yes, it is really bad. A government welding people into their homes is bad, no matter the situation. I am surprised there are people in the civilised world for whom this is not obvious.

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