As I remember South Korea adopted the blueprint for pandemic response that the UK stuck in the bottom of a filing cabinet, and did ok with it for a few months. New Zealand was also quite successful initially.
Yes but it's also harder to compare with those countries as the rule of law works differently, i mean in this country you have protestors vandalizing a testing site, in those countries it would be the police vandalizing the protestors then jailing them.. Corbuyn's brother would probably be among those ''missing''
Westminster has few qualms being authoritarian against minority protests, especially where it has media backup. When the media are biased we have a problem. As individuals and communities and workplaces we have had a lot of complex needs to balance. We need more complex media.
(Note to self - must buy Private Eye)
Yes if you compare the peacefull anti-covid protest with for example the climate/xr protest the police is much more heavy handed and faster to intervene with the covid protest.
Media with always be biased, the issue is more if the balance shifts or if they start interviewing people who have a certain bias on the topic, the W.H.O. boss is an good example. He came in that position after China bought lots of influence in his country, so his error of judgement during the beginning of the pandemic and China's attempts to control the information/play down the severity etc. cannot be seen separately, i known any China lover will call it a conspiracy but at this point everything i say here can be proven.. it when you say the origin of the virus is not the wet market is where it becomes and conspiracy... because China refuses to provide enough information to prove this theory right or wrong.
In fact, many doctors and scientists here in East Asia were screaming warnings from the rooftops from the end of Jan 2020 about this virus. As mentioned, they all gave a blueprint as to what to do, going by the knowledge of the virus at that time. This was ignored.
On the old site, I posted about this and passed on the blueprint. Stock up on items, hand sanitiser, masks etc etc. This was early Feb 2020.
The way the medical community here were ignored still ranckles with them to this day. Only the Italians have come close to an apology for not paying attention.
End of January the dutch authorities send most of their masks/pe stocks to China, the then health minister said (translated quote) ''i don't believe the coronavirus will come to europe'' and then come end of Feb the first cases where reported and by the end of March most of europe was in lockdown. So Europe was unprepared no question.
But doctors and scientist screaming form the rooftops? Maybe because that's the only safe place if they are not seen and recorded by an goverment drone? I mean i remember a 30ish doctor who now has passed away being reprimanded for raising the alarm on covid?
Nobody here in HK believes the Chinese figures.
So to get the the real figures do we have to do the reported numbers multiplied by 10x 100x or 1000x ? and how effective would you say those whole million poeple city lockdown's and mass testing events are? (if you would have more info on that, in here we just here how they claim to test so many people in a very short time. )
