Re: How has the infection been stopped in China? Archived Message Posted by Willem on May 3, 2020, 2:14 pm, in reply to "Re: How has the infection been stopped in China?" Would it be considered a cheap trick to say ... "Whataboutery?" :-) Ha! You're not Walter in disguise, are you? Why do *you* think its risen in Russia right now? How about not simply nibbling around the edges? I don't know; from what I have read, it seems Russia had a more stringent lockdown than possibly all other European countries even early on (with two-week quarantines for anyone coming in from outside), but maybe it wasn't severe enough. From what Dan says below and this article https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/china-s-aggressive-measures-have-slowed-coronavirus-they-may-not-work-other-countries it looks like the Chinese were an order of magnitude stricter; e.g. by tracking everyone's movement on mobile phone Apps. Also, the article indicates their method is very unlikely repeatable elsewhere (now an academic exercise). As Jeremy Konyndyk, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development says: “No one else in the world really can do what China just did.” I still find it puzzling that there weren't more infections from those initial few weeks before they started the measures. Anyway, overall it strikes me that unless you do something akin to what the Chinese did, the lockdowns are at most slowing down the pandemic, nothing else. (Well, other than creating a host of other problems.) Message Thread: How has the infection been stopped in China? - Willem May 2, 2020, 11:31 pm Re: How has the infection been stopped in China? - Shyaku May 2, 2020, 11:40 pm Re: How has the infection been stopped in China? - Willem May 3, 2020, 1:39 am Re: How has the infection been stopped in China? - Shyaku May 3, 2020, 6:20 am Re: How has the infection been stopped in China? - Willem May 3, 2020, 2:14 pm Re: How has the infection been stopped in China? - walter May 3, 2020, 2:43 pm Re: How has the infection been stopped in China? - Willem May 3, 2020, 7:13 pm Re: How has the infection been stopped in China? - walter May 3, 2020, 8:41 pm Look the infection rate is coming down everywhere in western europe - Shyaku May 3, 2020, 12:04 am Re: How has the infection been stopped in China? - dan May 3, 2020, 8:30 am   Searching