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Re:Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown by roenxi on Sunday March 13, 2022 @07:04AM (#30660166)
China is engaging in some combination of not measuring/not reporting/lying on the subject of COVID infections. Ourworldindata claims [0] that their case counts are comparable to New Zealand. There needs to be a much, much more powerful argument than "they've got CCTV and powerful bureaucrats!" before anyone can take those figures seriously.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases

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Re:Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown by goldname on Sunday March 13, 2022 @07:51PM (#30666994)
I don't believe any of that crap. Have you even read that comment about being locked in a building because someone tested positive?
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Re:Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown by limoce on Sunday March 13, 2022 @07:21AM (#30660262)
Why the number of confirmed cases shown in [0] is even smaller than that reported by China CDC? It doesn't make sense.
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Re:Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown by Derek0116 on Sunday March 13, 2022 @10:06PM (#30667794)
Prejudice. The current number of COVID cases in China is real. BTW, I think, in HN and reddit, sometimes we demonize the Chinese government too much and live in an "Information Cocoon Room" more or less.
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Re:Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown by orestarod on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @08:15PM (#30693664)
Do you really believe the measures of China lead to 1000 times less infected people than what we see in the rest of the world?
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Re:Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown by DiogenesKynikos on Thursday March 17, 2022 @06:13PM (#30716443)
Absolutely.

Chinese society has been largely open for the last 2 years, yet hospitals have not been overwhelmed, and hardly anyone even knows anyone who's gotten CoVID-19.

The measures that public health authorities in Chinese cities take to squash outbreaks are highly visible. If there's a single known case in a city, the building where the person lives will be locked down, the neighborhood (or even the entire city) will be PCR tested, and everyone who's been near the infected person will be quarantined. These measures work.

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Re:Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown by sharken on Monday March 28, 2022 @08:10PM (#30837114)
These measures are extreme even to China, and can only be viewed as a test of how much control the regime can have over its citizens.

The answer to that is that the regime can do anything it wants to, period.

There is no way that China after more than two years, should not have been able to vaccinate those that need the vaccine the most.

Getting COVID is no longer a huge risk and neither is avoiding infections at this point.

No, this is only about control.

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