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How China Is Back To Normal While The U.S. And Europe Are Getting From Bad To Worse

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Coronavirus – Here’s How China Is Back To Normal While The U.S. And Europe Are Getting From Bad To Worse


The Thanksgiving holiday is around the corner. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious-disease expert, said Americans must “sacrifice” it if they hope to prevent another surge of Covid-19 cases. The White House Coronavirus advisor said during an interview with CBS News that his kids won’t be coming home for Thanksgiving this year due to fear of spreading the virus.

He said – “Thanksgiving is going to look very different this year. I would love to have it with my children, but my children are in three separate states throughout the country and, in order for them to get here, they would all have to go to an airport and get on a plane. All three of them want very much to come home for Thanksgiving.”

However, due to his children’s concern over his age, they have decided to cancel coming home for Thanksgiving. Therefore, Fauci advised Americans to bite the bullet and sacrifice the social gathering of Thanksgiving. But will Americans care to listen to Fauci, especially when President Trump always finds it fun at undermining and ridiculing his own health adviser?



The U.S. is not the only Western country that is still struggling to flatten the Covid-19 curve after months of the outbreak – without much success. Europe’s Coronavirus fight has taken a turn for the worse. As a dozen countries reported their highest ever number of new infections, Europe’s second wave is sweeping the continent with record breaking cases.

The European Union and the U.K. recorded an average of 78,000 cases a day over a 7-day period ending on Oct 12. Over the same period, the U.S. recorded 49,000 cases a day. In essence, the Europe overtook the U.S. for the first time. Today, in less than a week, the infections across the European Union have broken the barrier of a jaw-dropping 150,000 cases a day.

In France, which reported more than 30,000 new infections on Thursday, President Emmanuel Macron said a curfew was needed. Like Fauci, Chancellor Angela urged the Germans – “Difficult months are ahead of us. How winter will be, how our Christmas will be, that will all be decided in these coming days and weeks, and it will be decided by our behaviour.”



And if a research by Australian scientists who have found that the Covid-19 virus can survive for up to 28 days (on surfaces such as the glass on mobile phones and paper banknotes) is any indicator, especially at low temperature of 20ºC, the situation could only get worse. The approaching winter – the cold weather and people’s weakened immune systems – could fuel new surges of Covid-19 cases.

Meanwhile, China, with a population of 1.3 billion, has recorded only 90,955 Coronavirus cases and 4,739 deaths as of Saturday (according to Johns Hopkins). United States, with a population of 328 million, have recorded a mind-boggling 8,106,384 cases and 219,286 deaths. Europe, with a population of 741 million, has registered 6,976,052 cases and 240,306 deaths.

One can argue until the cows come home, but the fact is, the Coronavirus can be controlled and China has shown how it can be done. To the sceptical, here’s the proof – some 637 million people (or 46% of China’s population) travelled around the country during the eight days (Oct 1-8) Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, known as the Golden Week.



The retail and restaurant sales alone during the Chinese Golden Week reached 1.6 trillion Yuan (US$235.5 billion), with daily sales up 4.9% compared to last year’s seven-day holiday. The numbers show that China, and the rest of the world for that matter, can actually revive their economies pretty quickly once the Covid-19 is brought under control – even if a vaccine is out of reach.

But instead of learning from China, the Western countries were too proud to admit their methods do not work. On Friday, China reported 13 new cases, according to its National Health Commission. The same day, the U.S. reported 70,450 new cases – the highest figure since July 24 (not to mention more than 900 deaths) – according to The New York Times.

To keep whining, moaning and bitching that China, where the novel Coronavirus was first discovered, is the evil culprit will not solve any problem. When the virus first wrecked serious havoc in China from January to February, the rest of the world looked on with popcorn. They thought it was a problem confined only to mainland China.



China’s success has been attributed to a number of factors. Bruce Aylward, assistant director-general of the WHO (World Health Organization), revealed that China’s success came from speed and from taking contract tracing seriously. He said – “The faster you can find the cases, isolate the cases, and track their close contacts, the more successful you’re going to be.”

When Wuhan was identified as the source of the outbreak, it was quickly isolated, with 11 million residents of the city spending 76 days in lockdown. In fact, between January and February, the Chinese government had confined 507.5 million people either in full or partial lockdown covering 20 provinces – more than the populations of the U.S. (327.2 million) and Russia (144.5 million) combined.

People were flabbergasted with news about excavators, trucks, bulldozers and hundreds of construction workers mobilized at unbelievable speed to build a hospital with 1,000 beds in just 6 days. In two weeks, two hospitals were up and running – with a capacity of 2,600 beds. Engineers were brought in from across the country in order to complete construction in time.





According to The Lancet medical journal, a whopping 14,000 health and temperature checkpoints were set up at most major transport hubs across the country. Yes, the key to China’s success was its speed and commitment to testing. Not only getting a Coronavirus test was fast, but also free. Those who tested positive were immediately sent to isolation centers or nearby hospitals.

After Wuhan, the Chinese government takes new cases very seriously. For example, on October 9, after 12 new cases of Covid-19 were discovered in the eastern city of Qingdao, the authorities declared it would do a mass testing on its entire population of 9 million people in “five days” – about 1,800,000 residents per day. That’s about the entire population of the New York City.

China’s ability to test more than a million of residents in a day is legendary and indisputable. In May, when 6 new cases re-appeared in Wuhan, once the epicentre of Coronavirus, the authorities tested its 11 million residents over a 10-day period. In what appeared to be a minor cluster by Western standard, the Chinese government was determined to hunt down asymptomatic carriers.



The campaign was not only labour-intensive, but also very expensive. But China knew the money would be well spent. Wuhan health authorities revealed that at least 1 billion Yuan (US$220 million) had been allocated by Beijing to ensure all 11 million people are tested. Even though they found only 300 asymptomatic cases and 1,174 positive cases, it makes people feel safe and increases confidence nationwide.

They have an easy weapon to instil obedience – people who refused to volunteer themselves for testing were told that they would have to pay for all their tests in the future. On the first day of the mass testing exercise in May, it processed 1.47 million tests. At the same rate of 1.47 million tests, China could test the entire Malaysian population of 33 million people in just 22 days.

In comparison, Australia had only managed to conduct about 1.2 million tests from January until May 2020. The New York state had tested a total of 1.7 million people between March 4 and June 3, something that the Chinese could do in less than 2 days. The U.K., infamous for its consistent failure to hit daily test targets, has claimed to be able to test about 300,000 cases daily.





Of course, it helps that most Chinese people remember SARS-CoV and its high mortality rate. So, while it did not take much effort to convince the people to exercise social distancing or mask wearing, two steps that are sufficient to control Covid-19, it has been an uphill task for Western countries to enforce it. It would take 7 months for President Trump to finally wear a mask publicly for the first time in July.

Likewise, the U.S., U.K. and Europe took months to admit that mask wearing was beneficial to curbing the spread of the virus. Even as late as May, the British government was still considering whether to tell the public to cover their faces in public. To add salt to injury, the Western countries were short of PPE and masks, hence making it a challenge even if they wanted to enforce it.

However, as much as the West would like to copy, China’s lockdown model is very hard to replicate in the U.S. and Europe. What is regarded as draconian and unethical lockdown in the U.S. and Europe has proven to be the working solution in China. Confined at home, residents were not even allowed to go out of their home to shop for groceries.



Instead, they have to rely on designated neighbourhood committees to make group orders for daily necessities. That’s very different in the U.S. and Europe, where despite partial lockdown and rules to wear mask and practice social distancing, young people were seen packing the beaches in the summer weather, attending spring break parties, and holding illegal raves.

In addition, the Chinese government leverages on state-run mobile carriers to track down anyone who disobeyed lockdown order. Such measure which breaches privacy will definitely invite condemnations from human rights activists if being carried out in the Western countries. But in China, nobody dares to question the authorities of the uniformed law enforcement officers.

How bad would it be for the West? The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation forecasted on Friday that based on the current projection scenario, the U.S. could expect a total of 389,087 deaths by February 1, 2021 – almost double the current death toll – if there are no changes to the current policy. In Europe, they have just begun talking about tougher restrictions.





28 comments:

  1. I have this theory that Chinese people have a higher level of genetic immunity to this “Local Virus”.....ha ha ha......I won’t use Carrot top’s descriptor.....

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    1. i believe u mean the bat eating native.

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    2. Pandai la tu, cannot bear to diss your white masters ? ...so the NZ population are mostly Chinese ? Most of Australia pun mostly Chinese too ? You can take your theory and stuff it up where the sun don't shine, wa ka ka ka. Just read AGAIN what the author had wrote.....it boils down to leadership ! NZ Jacinda Ardern rocks too.

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    3. Keep an open mind, don’t write off any theories...recent research suggests blood type O less susceptible to C19, but don’t know why....

      https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3077784/worldwide-genetics-race-uncover-who-most-susceptible-covid-19
      https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3077784/worldwide-genetics-race-uncover-who-most-susceptible-covid-19

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    4. Well, maybe genetic predisposition or maybe eating pigs and wild animals....

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      Study says Asians may have greater resistance against COVID-19
      Online News EditorMay 20, 2020

      Tokyo, May 20 (efe-epa).- A study from the University of Tokyo suggests that people in Japan and other East Asian countries have greater resistance against the novel coronavirus owing to their prior exposure to other related pathogens.

      This could explain “the lowest mortality recorded in Japan and other Southeast Asian countries,” Professor Tatsuhiko Kodama of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo said at a press conference via telematics.

      Analysis of antibody samples of more than 100 Japanese people “indicate that immunity against SARS-CoV-2 exists in many individuals not exposed to the pathogen, due to prior exposure to protein from another coronavirus in the same family,” Kodama explained.

      Preliminary results of the study, in which dozens of samples of patients continue to be analyzed daily, suggest that immunity to the new coronavirus already exists in many East Asian countries, according to the expert.

      Kodama added that his hypothesis was backed by another study published a week ago by American scientists on San Diego residents who had not been exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Fifty percent of them were found to have immune memory against the new coronavirus.

      This Californian city has a high number of residents of Asian origin and with extensive connections to Asia-Pacific region, where there have been successive common cold epidemics possibly caused by strains related to SARS-CoV-2.

      The reason for this underlying immunity could be an exposure to other varieties of coronavirus in East Asia, including those causing the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) epidemic in 2012.

      The professor stressed that in East Asia there is a long history of diseases with flu-like symptoms, and many of these viruses originally came from China and other parts of Southeast Asia, and then spread to the Middle East and Europe.

      The authors of the study believe that prior exposure to viruses in the SARS-CoV-2 family made a big difference in the immune response and mortality rate, and that this was an immunological, and not genetic difference.

      While China, South Korea and Japan have recorded between three to six deaths per million people, in other countries such as Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom this number shoots up to more than 500 per million people.
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    5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/researchers-ponder-why-covid-appears-more-deadly-in-the-us-and-europe-than-in-asia/2020/05/26/81889d06-8a9f-11ea-9759-6d20ba0f2c0e_story.html

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      Researchers ponder why covid-19 appears deadlier in the U.S. and Europe than in Asia

      Simon Denyer and Joel Achenbach
      May 28, 2020

      TOKYO — It is one of the many mysteries of the coronavirus pandemic: Why has the death toll from covid-19 apparently been lower in Asia than in Western Europe and North America?

      Even allowing for different testing policies and counting methods, and questions over full disclosure of cases, stark differences in mortality across the world have caught the attention of researchers trying to crack the coronavirus code.

      Parts of Asia reacted quickly to the threat and largely started social distancing earlier on. But researchers are also examining other factors, including differences in genetics and immune system responses, separate virus strains and regional contrasts in obesity levels and general health.

      China, where the virus emerged late last year in Wuhan, has recorded fewer than 5,000 deaths, which translates to three deaths per million inhabitants. Japan has around seven per million, Pakistan six, South Korea and Indonesia five, India three and Thailand fewer than one per million. Vietnam, Cambodia and Mongolia say they have recorded zero covid-19-related deaths.

      Compare that with about 100 deaths per million in Germany, about 180 in Canada, nearly 300 in the United States and more than 500 in Britain, Italy and Spain.
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    6. https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race

      Asians Rock in US, Even when a Trumpet is President, Not an Ardent...

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      THE COLOR OF CORONAVIRUS:
      COVID-19 DEATHS BY RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE U.S.

      by APM RESEARCH LAB STAFF | Oct. 15, 2020

      Our ongoing Color of Coronavirus project monitors how and where COVID-19 mortality is inequitably impacting certain communities—to guide policy and community responses to these disproportionate deaths. The coronavirus has claimed more than 217,000 American lives through Oct. 13, 2020—about 22,000 more than our last update four weeks ago, averaging nearly 800 deaths per day. We know the race and ethnicity for 97% of the cumulative deaths in the United States.

      Our latest update reveals continued wide disparities by race, most dramatically for Black and Indigenous Americans. We also adjust these mortality rates for age, a common and important tool that health researchers use to compare diseases that affect age groups differently. This results in even larger mortality disparities observed between Black, Indigenous and other populations of color relative to Whites, who experience the lowest age-adjusted rates nationally. Age-adjusting elevates the mortality rate for Latinos more than any other group—revealing that COVID-19 is stealing far more Latino lives than we would expect despite this group’s relative youthfulness.

      We have been tracking these deaths for six months now, revealing COVID-19’s growing toll on all Americans, but with the heaviest losses among Black and Indigenous Americans.

      KEY FINDINGS (from data through Oct. 13):

      1 in 920 Black Americans has died (or 108.4 deaths per 100,000)

      1 in 1,110 Indigenous Americans has died (or 90.0 deaths per 100,000)

      1 in 1,360 Latino Americans has died (or 73.5 deaths per 100,000)

      1 in 1,450 Pacific Islander Americans has died (or 68.9 deaths per 100,000).

      1 in 1,840 White Americans has died (or 54.4 deaths per 100,000)

      1 in 2,200 Asian Americans has died (or 45.4 deaths per 100,000)
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    7. i think social distancing is permeated among eastern/oriental culture, even among family member including husband n wives wakaka. most chinese rarely hug, shake hand, holding hand, kissing, touching except only during the sexual arosal period. we may develop a theory love n sex life with chinese kharacteristic, of course ck will be our editor, jerk as exemplar.

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    8. Walau-eh! Hard at works in c&p. The unfortunate parts r all these articles, some selectively, were trashy reportings of the worst kind!

      Take APM RESEARCH LAB report. Blurred mfer, u have (intentionally) missed out the social econ backgrounds about WHY those Americans fared so badly facing the covid-19 pandemic.

      The more adept comparison is to examine racial impact from the same social econ strata. APM RESEARCH LAB has done that & yet u didn't quote!

      Maybe u should look at hiw that 犬养mfer's interpret about that early 'normal' Formosa fart.

      India too have an impressive early covid toil casualty. But when the major waves hit, the toil shot up. Go check the classification if the India toil. How r the 'famed' caste system imprints the death. Genetic, right? Since caste is total & never mixed, such that their genetic differences r very distinct!

      Go & do a decent c&p to redeem yr egoistic trick.

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    9. i tends to agree with ck, ccp did better than usofa to manage the pendemic, while taiwan is the best.

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    10. Wakakakakaka…

      I don't need toad fart! Keep it to yrself.

      China doesn't need any praise from a 犬养mfer to twist her fight with the pandemic.

      The records r there for the world to see.

      Only yellowed toad drown with sour grapes, would keep upstaging its beloved fart filled well!

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    11. I tweet that Chinese/East Asian DNA is superior to western oso you hentam. It's true isn't it....? Or just same same...?

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    12. No!

      U r hiding yr twisted eugenic farts!

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  2. the culprit, similar to our backdoor pm, often give an impression they won, at keast ccp zombie n twat believe so.

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    1. Batty-the-Bahalol...go talk to yourself, hehe

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    2. Bullyland, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Taiwan all have low cases, as is Singapore.....

      Contrast Europe, India, ME, Americas.....

      Of course there are countries with low cases due to extenuating actions.....like ANZ border shutdown early on, good leadership, isolation, only way is by air......

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  3. Wakakakakaka…

    Sour grapes do grow inside that fart filled well!

    Mmmm… can yellowed roads eat them?

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    1. taiwan is normal from the very beginning, no need "back" to normal, so who is the sour grape? who is the guilty party that now disguised as savior? u know i know la that 2 buddy. just dun know which is the doppelganger of which.

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    2. Wakakakakaka… how far back is yr beginning?

      So u didn't read the news about how Formosa adulterer their covid toils to make her lily white! The SKorean & the Japanese govt have imposted level5 travelling restriction for people coming in from that f*cked covid-19 'normal' island!

      Don't u worry about the doppelganger (wow! 南魔萬 England) from the two buddies u know lah.

      One is working towards a constitutional confrontation of no giving up the potus seat commes Jan 2021.

      The other is counting her days as the last doggie frontier of the above nation.

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    3. twnese go to school work street market mall park tour as per normal from the very very beginning, the only abnormal thing they did is to stop mainlander ie wuhanvirus carrier from coming in from the very very very begining.

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    4. Yaloh, those genuflecting Formosa duckheads worked hand in glove secretly with their uncle Sam to import SARS-CoV2 to Wahnan wet market.

      That's how they did the only abnormal thing to stop mainlander coming in the very very very beginning!

      They knew mah.

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  4. A Confucian-Chinese society , a democracy and successful free-market economy which has kept Covid-19 well under control without resorting to Totalitarian measures.

    Bravo to Taiwan!

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    1. Good!

      Now that yr uncle Sam is on the way down. Perhaps that katak bursting island would be yr best choice to retire & spend yr ill-gotten wealth.

      But, do count yr days! As that island's spurious demoNcratic days r numbered!

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    2. start counting from 10.10.1911 or 1.1.1949 or today?

      today easier i guess, the first 2 date is toooooooooo looooooooong time ago, not suit the meaning of days r numbered.

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    3. 犬养mfer, haven't I questioned about yr ability in 南魔萬 England?

      Now trying yr Japanese, too?

      Now, u want to dig out those petrified shits, as continuously repeated ad nauseum by those 台毒 dickheads, about that 'time stamps' of 1911 or 1949!

      Go listen to that right-wing Jap YouTube I recommended. It has not only mentioned about how Mao using Jap to fight Chiang's kmt but also mentioned in passing that time stamps u have just farted!

      Yr gospel dates? Just liken to yr Yuan dynasty wasn't Chinese. Or Jap liberated Formosa, thus that f*cked island is been independent from the China proper!

      没门!

      Oooop… go & add some other 'fragrances' to that stagnant foul gaseous environment that u r so used to.

      Get yr 蔡妹妹 to teach u more about twisting China history the Formosa katak way that not even those infamous Jap historians dare to concoct!

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    4. both term unification and invasion might hv diff meaning but is replaceable for each other accoding to dictionary with ccp characteristic.

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    5. 南魔萬England on parade AGAIN!

      When is internal quarrel/conflict within country becomes invasion?

      How isn't returning to motherland after yrs of foreign occupation reunification?

      Ooop… 台毒 meme-ed characteristics leak from the fart filled well. No dictionary, of any kinds, required!

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