There will be no need to bludgeon or tear gas them because the police would not care if they went around destroying virtual stores that they *feel* is associated with China or when they set virtual people on virtual fire because these people disagree with them.

They can harass and congregate around virtual police stations all they like.

Chinese New Year holiday officially began on Jan 24th, but for many migrant workers, this is the only time they get to go home to see their child or their wife or their parents so they might leave before this official day.

The lock down of Wuhan actually occurred on the 23rd link (www.npr.org)

Officially, they were only given 8hrs notice, but the information leaked and an estimated 5 million escaped the lockdown (of Hubei, not just Wuhan). This was probably the cause of the jump in cases around the all parts of China forcing the entire country to go under lockdown. If they had successfully locked down Wuhan and then as an extra layer of security locked down Hubei, the rest of China could possibly have been spared the lock down.

So for those who still want to use the "this-happened-in-the-US-because-China-didn't-tell-us-in-December": By Jan 23rd, it was in the news. Chinese locked down a city of 11 million people. Closed all roads and public transportation to try and contain the spread. I think the action tells you how serious they thought it was. If you see the Hindenburg on fire and you don't run because no one told you this is serious... well...

Does it really matter whether China had 80K infected or 160K infected?
Does it really matter whether they had 3000 deaths or 30K deaths?


How does it really affect what is happening in New York?
Does it make the 4000+ American deaths less significant?


Wuhan officials screwed up by trying to muzzle a doctor who raised the alarm.
Hubei officials screwed up by trying to downplay the severity and say there was no human to human transmission.
But seriously, by December, anyone with half a brain could see that there was very good human to human transmission based on the cases being reported.
Note the logical fallacy in "Never trust the Chinese, their government only tells lies" and "they told us it was ok, so we believed them and did nothing"


When the magnitude of the screw up became known at the National level, the CCP knew this was serious stuff. They also knew that clamping down hard and fast was the quickest way. Probably about 1 Trillion Chinese went into some kind of lockdown for about 6-8 weeks to try and slow the progress and limit the spread. The world knew it was a shit storm by Jan 25th but what did US Gov do? Kick into high gear? Start preparing testing kits? Start thinking of ingenious ways to make ventilators?

Ultimately with any population there will always be those who are selfish and do not follow the rules. The problem is with something like this virus, all you need is a small percentage of people to not follow the rules to keep the chain of infection going. The more "draconian" and the closer to 100% compliance you can achieve, the faster you will see results. The only places where I think draconian measures might not be needed are places like Korea and Japan where there is higher social compliance.

While the John Hopkins visualization is good for getting total infected for a country: Link

I find this one from University of Washington better to see the rate of new infections: Link

Steep curve bad.
Flat curve good.

Every state in the US that has active cases you can see has a steep curve.
This is with limited test kits available.
If states could test all the ones they needed, they would probably catch more... which is actually a good thing because those not caught are actively spreading.

"shooting of an unarmed teenage student by police. Tsang Chi-kin was shot in the chest at point-blank"

Watch the video from New York Times (not some Chinese state propaganda site) and evaluate for yourself the honesty of the above statement (link below):
https://www.nytimes.com/video/...

The guy who got shot is one of the first to start beating the first officer with a pipe. When the second officer comes in to help his colleague, the "unarmed student" hits the office #2 in the arm with the metal pipe. Also the rhetoric is "police murdering students", can you tell me which ones are students and what their approximate ages are?

Imagine the exact same scenario playing out in the US. What do you think would have happened? One single shot?

An equally true statement: There is no United States. There are only Mohawk nation, Cherokee nation, Apache nation etc. My statement became untrue after about 200 years ago (after the British knowingly gave natives pox ridden blankets as gifts) and then killed off the rest via good old guns. Your statement has been untrue for probably 1000+ years. But hey, who cares about the truth these days right?

I prefer a digital DDoS from China over a physical DDoS from the rioters blocking roads, subway systems and airports. Can you imagine what would happen if a mass of people with face masks, helmets, and other paraphernalia congregated at Logan, SFO or LAX to cause havoc and try to shut down the airport? Their freedom to protest does not give them freedom to be asses and put restrictions on other people or to hold them hostage (figuratively and literally).