BEIJING (AP) — For more than two months, the 11 million residents of Wuhan endured a strict lockdown as coronavirus raced around the city in central China.
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The Dead Pool?
That photo looks like the world’s largest Petri dish, dunnit?
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Ahhhh! Looking at that pic gives me the heebie jeebies!
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We are way ahead of them wrt to parties and cases and death count…
We had Covid parties awhile back to see who can be infected first and not as a relief after strict lockdown!
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jmacaz
August 19, 2020, 2:15pm
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Looks like a good place for Trump to give his acceptance speech to me.
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Welp—if they’ve really got it under control, why not. Probably not the only crowd those folks encounter day to day.
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Wuhan’s wolrd-class tracing system allows them to do this. They track everybody and let you know if you’ve been exposed.
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Meanwhile, somewhere in South Dakota…
paulw
August 19, 2020, 2:40pm
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This is the kind of thing you can do if you have rigorous tracing and have achieved a low infection rate.
How’s the news from Georgia, or is there noboy left to get messages out at this point?
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And here lies the argument on contact tracing. Do we really want the government to know our every move? Just throwing that out there.
Of course, we American do the opposite and scream that masks infringe on our rights.
Sigh.
Even if we were not in the midst of a deadly pandemic, that looks like hell to me.