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by woopdidoop 2313 days ago
> Do you really think it will be any different in the USA or Europe? Will the governments ban conventions? Close restaurants and bars? Shut down shopping malls?

You are poorly informed. The Italian government did precisely that this weekend.
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bitreality 2313 days ago
Just wait until it happens on a massive scale, and does not appear to be stopping the spread of the virus. People in the West are going to be tough to keep on lockdown. The entire purpose of lockdowns and quarantines at this point seem to be delaying until a vaccine is ready.

This will be hard for the average person to understand, and people think much more critically in the West.

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coldtea 2313 days ago
>People in the West are going to be tough to keep on lockdown

Historically they haven't been proven particularly tough to lock down, stir up by authoritarians (Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, etc), be surveilled, sold lies, and so on...

As for those "obedient" Chinese, they got this authoritarian party they have today by doing a whole revolution thing first...

>people think much more critically in the West.

That's what uncritical westerners are told...

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cylinder 2313 days ago
It's very easy to lock people down. have you ever been in New York before a declared snow day? How about Houston just before a big hurricane? Absolute ghost towns.

People are actually eager to be told to stay home and not go to work. They don't have to be forced. Especially if it's for their safety.

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alisonatwork 2312 days ago
Many parts of China have been on lockdown for over 4 weeks now. Hundreds of millions of people have still not returned to work. I am not sure a lockdown of this scale will be accepted in other countries.
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bitreality 2312 days ago
Yeah exactly. It's one thing to board up the windows for a day or two, a completely different story to do it for a month+. People get restless and impatient. They start working each other up about perceived ineffectiveness of the lockdown.
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bdavisx 2312 days ago
>people think much more critically in the West.

From what I've seen, the majority of the people anywhere don't think very critically.

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