Totalitarian regimes are uniquely qualified to deal with pandemics.

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Apr 3, 2020
9:05:12am

Sea Chicken Surly

Totalitarian regimes are uniquely qualified to deal with pandemics.

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Sea Chicken

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Regardless of what the actual numbers are in China, theirs will be massively better than ours per capita

Solomon Levi Truly Addicted User

4/3/20 9:03am

Totalitarian regimes are uniquely qualified to deal with pandemics.

Sea Chicken

4/3/20 9:05am

Absolutely, but Singapore and Japan are also doing incredibly well

4/3/20 9:07am

Singapore is as authoritarian as they come. The Japanese have a history of mask

P-Widdy

4/3/20 9:12am

Um, no. Japan and Singapore did very well at the start, but Japan's curve is

BeardedSpock

4/3/20 10:52am

They don't want you dying accidentally because it cuts into their purposeful death numbers

Indy Coug

4/3/20 9:12am

And they can (and have) lied about numbers to dress things up

YSMACK

4/3/20 9:12am

But their cities are more densely populated and it hit during Chinese New Year.

Archaea

4/3/20 9:05am

They also made up their numbers.

ray ray

4/3/20 9:05am

No question. Their actual numbers (that we’ll never know) will still beat ours

4/3/20 9:08am

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rivercitycoug

4/3/20 9:20am

How can you know that if you admit we’ll never know what they are?

ray ray

4/3/20 12:51pm

Real numbers exist independent of what we know or will know

4/3/20 1:14pm

My wife that actually lived in Wuhan begs to differ about best practices being

rcbyufan

4/3/20 9:10am

That's completely unknowable

Indy Coug

4/3/20 9:11am

Agreed, but population control is a tool they have that we don’t

4/3/20 9:12am

This is definitely true. We're making great strides in totalitarianism though!

rcbyufan

4/3/20 9:15am

I would prefer to have higher numbers but not welded into my home.

tawillin

4/3/20 9:23am

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