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by JoeAltmaier 2280 days ago
The Chinese have apparently quit testing, so naturally it seems they have it 'under control' since they report zero new cases (detected).

And the live-animal markets have produced disease before, every year in fact for decades, and not been 'cleaned up' so far. I have little confidence in any of that happening.

I have no problem with the Chinese as people, but their current government is not to be admired.
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mrich 2280 days ago
I'm also a bit surprised by the low number of reported cases (there were some, but apparently only from foreigners - which was heavily publicized)

Certainly there are new infections but I'm optimistic that they can and will be contained. They simply have too much to lose here to just "manipulate the numbers"

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berdario 2280 days ago
> The Chinese have apparently quit testing, so naturally it seems they have it 'under control' since they report zero new cases (detected).

That's patently untrue

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/bay-area-woman-f...

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JoeAltmaier 2280 days ago
Foreigners only?
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berdario 2280 days ago
No, here's a report of an indigenous case:

https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2003224819/

This is exactly what you expect to happen when efforts at containing the virus have been successful: the number of new cases gradually tapers off, until it reaches 0 or almost 0, and most new cases are due to people coming from areas of the world in which it's still raging.

The outbreak started earlier in China, and it's thus unsurprising to see that they reached this point earlier than in other countries.

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