‘Extremely Grave’: China Cracks Down Amid New COVID-19 Outbreak In Beijing | Talking Points Memo

BEIJING (AP) — China raised its emergency warning to its second-highest level and canceled more than 60% of the flights to Beijing on Wednesday amid a new coronavirus outbreak in the capital. It was a sharp pullback for the nation that declared victory over COVID-19 in March and a message to the rest of the world about how tenacious the virus really is.


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China never stopped having a CoVid problem. I never believed anything reported about Wuhan.

Waiting for the Wuhan Miracle where it all disappears again in 4,3,2,1…

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Tah dah…here it comes…

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China starts locking things down again because the nationwide daily case count is going back up (32 new cases per day, 7-day moving average). Meanwhile, 44 of 50 US states have well over 32 new cases per day, averaging 400 new cases per day. What is wrong with this picture?

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Well there goes the Dow again. And Trump just won’t understand why. He’s opening up the economy, isn’t he? Doesn’t it listen to him?

Thailand reportedly has no new cases…but is taking no chances:

And rumour has it if and when it opens up…travellers from the US and the UK may not be welcome because of the trajectory of the illness in those countries.

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But yeah we didn’t do anything because China lied to us… how could we ever tell from the locking down of entire cities that the virus was serious?

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Doesn’t China know you’re only allowed to close down once? Just ask any tRumpster. They’ll tell you.

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