Tourists lined up to enter the Forbidden City in Beijing on Sunday.Credit...Andy Wong/Associated Press
China’s approach to keep Covid-19 at bay has helped restore confidence and allowed businesses to reopen. But it is a strategy steeped in authoritarianism.
The United States is hitting records in daily coronavirus cases. But China, the country first afflicted with the scourge, is having a different experience.
Unlike the Trump administration, which has said it is prioritizing opening the economy while essentially giving up on controlling the pandemic, China moved aggressively to stop the virus. The result: China’s economy is growing and life there is returning to a semblance of normal, while the United States is struggling with a third wave of infections and the prospect of new restrictions.
Economic growth in China has surged, hitting 4.9 percent in the latest quarter, and consumer spending has slowly started to recover. Residents are once again flocking into malls, bars, concert halls and hair salons, while schools, subways and offices are crowded.
China has effectively sealed off its borders from the outside world and doubled down on efforts to eradicate the virus. When a crop of cases emerge, the government swiftly shuts down vast areas and quickly tests millions of people, to help keep local transmissions near zero.
China’s authoritarian government has the ability to act in a way that democracies that must be accountable to the public cannot. But it has demonstrated that the way to open the economy is to first safeguard public health.
While Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, has said the United States is “not going to control the pandemic” but will focus on getting vaccines and therapeutic treatments to combat the disease, China’s approach has helped to restore confidence and allow businesses to reopen.
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WNU Editor: The New York Times likes to believe that China is controlling the coronavirus. That what Beijing is saying is the truth. It is not. Everyone I know in China is telling me the same thing. Restrictions are the rule and not the exception. Outbreaks do occur regularly, and when they are spotted severe measures are imposed immediately. Everyone is on edge, and everyone is expecting another major wave. If not now, later. And no one has confidence that Beijing's strategy will work in the end.
The New York Times likes to believe that China is controlling the coronavirus
ReplyDeleteThe word is not "like". The word is "needs." The New York Times has to believe as a matter of doctrinal purity.
The NYT has said that Trump did it wrong. that we should have lockdown for as long as Ms. Faucio says. That other countries like German led by Merkel are doing it right.
The NYT has been so adamant about lockdown they fear a significant amount of their readers would experience severe cognitive dissonance and ultimately leave the plantation.
The NYT will run aground and be broken on the rocks of reality.
OCRUMBOGATE.
ReplyDeleteI said it before and I say it again
ReplyDeleteLate summer 2019: Panic in China, stock market crash, China losing the trade war against a rising America.
Whispers all over China from Beijing to Shanghai to get rid of Xi who publicly lost face and got humiliated in the trade war against Trump's roaring economy.
Suddenly a novel virus "breaks out".
Immediately, China bombards the World with terror videos of draconian lockdowns and people dropping dead like flies in the street. Young people. Old people healthy people. Everyone. Dead dead dead
Flights leave Wuhan. The World panics.
Fast forward and China's crumbling economy seems forgotten while every other nation is under lockdown and suffering from this "outbreak". Trillions lost. The largest wealth transfer the world has ever seen. China buys up property and companies left and right, from Paris to London to New York.
Complete media blackout. No one is even allowed to call it Wuhan virus. The "you are racist"methodology that was seeded prior takes effect. Parrots repeat it. Good boy,CNN. Good boy, Fred Lapides. Good boy, NY Times.
Biggest winner from all this? China
Location of outbreak? China
China even silenced whistle blowers, and amplified the devastation around the World by sending faulty protective equipment(PPE) and bad advice around the World.
Key personnel at WHO compromised. No one allowed to mention Taiwan's response. (The Taiwanese were monitoring Chinese Twitter and closed borders early)
Oh and get this it was even posted here on WNU: at the beginning of the outbreak, Chinese state media threatens the US to shut up about it or "we will sink you in the waves of the mighty corona virus". That's not what someone would say who is your friend.
I wouldn't be surprised if we go nuclear any day. If you got loved ones, time to give them a hug.
Good luck, everyone.
I've been right 10/10 on this blog and predict Trump will win the election despite the election interference by the media and compromised health officials @ Chinese thousand talents program. Then I'll be 11/11.
I hope I'll be wrong on my 12th and 13th predictions.
Figures that person (~ 2100) can spout flowery words, but who is illogical and innumerate (Which shows laziness, since language and numeracy rely on the same genes), has naught but name calling for a post.
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ReplyDeleteI would like to be able to be tested by one of those hand held devices that measure temperature, I believe it is, before I go inside a crowded building for shopping.
The masks don't seem to be effective, from what I read though one would think so.
Spacing makes sense. The free ride the virus takes isn't a long one in most cases.
Virus travels farther and/or stays longer in the air during winter.
ReplyDeleteThey should have let the virus spread as much as possible during spring and summer, when people are less stressed by climate. But no, the stupid had to lead.
I'd rather catch a cold in the summer than the winter. The same cold in winter I can re-catch a week or 3 weeks later due to lower immune defenses.
October 31, 2020 at 9:32 PM
ReplyDeleteNAMES CALLS FOR NAME CALLING: ASSHOLE
Not NAME CALLING, but properly calling someone lazy.
ReplyDeleteWhen there is a discussion about some problem in public there are almost always numbers or statistics that are too big or too small.
There are or proposed solutions, public policies, to the problems. To measure the cost and effect of these polices, they use numbers (dollar amounts) and statistics.
It is no different, when we discuss problems of public health. There are numbers. There is no reasonable way, there is no adult way, to talk bout public health without talking numbers, percentages, statistics and more.
So a person, who won' discuss numbers and has the refrain of "I have an accountant", is a troll, a moron, or a child.
No one could be as dumb as you. No one. Some antifah type Leftists has assumed an old man;s identity for agitprop purposes.
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