Now, In most areas of China, the epidemic has been effectively controlled. And, more importantly, the areas worst affected by the COVID-19 is Hubei, but there is no Apple Store in this province.
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All Apple Stores in China Will Be Reopened by Friday
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"Coronavirus infection numbers and deaths have been steadily declining in China over the course of the last few weeks, and the worst of the outbreak seems to be over." LOL!!! And who trusts the information released by a Communist Government?
I get opening essential businesses to human survival, like food and health related, but it seems premature to open up non essential retail in the originating country with the most cases on record. Not to mention the new cases being reported are probably no where near the actual amount of new cases. Literally seems impossible it’s slowed down that quickly even with the stringent quarantine rules there
Been working in HK for the past year. People in China and surrounding regions have went through SARS. The response has been quite different. Large parts of the country were locked down back in Jan and you couldn't even go out to buy groceries at first. Even before the lockdown nearly everyone wore masks. You can doubt the numbers all you want but science doesn't lie. If everyone is quarantined there is no way the virus can spread. Tried telling my friends and family back home to hunker down and sold all my stocks back in Feb. The rest of world especially the U.S. has been way to sanguine about the risks and the government seems totally lost as to what to do. I would seriously worry about the response first before questioning whether Apple is making the right decision reopening stores...
It is the very same country accusing the US introduced the virus to them last year.
They also claimed that there were only 50 more people died of SARS than Hong Kong where the population is not even on the same scale.
We are going to hear they have made pigs fly soon.
Not premature. Dynamic. Reported cases go down for awhile, open all the stores. Cases start going back up, depending on how fast and how much, shut everything down again. Maybe a 50/50 or 90/10 duty cycle of lockdowns will keep the hospitals from being overloaded (or no more busy than a normal flu season), and the stores still busy (when open).
Plus everybody will get better practice at these shutdowns for when an even more dangerous pandemic appears.
Get back to us in three weeks to see if the curve makes shutting down now the correct move.
Locked down 60 million people.
UAVs blasted atomized bleach at everything the public could touch.
Ramped up mask production to 116 million+ per day.
Developed a 29 minute test kit for COVID-19.
Basically moved heaven and earth.
Yeah, it's gonna have an effect on containing the virus.
UAVs blasted atomized bleach at everything the public could touch.
Ramped up mask production to 116 million+ per day.
Developed a 29 minute test kit for COVID-19.
Basically moved heaven and earth.
Yeah, it's gonna have an effect on containing the virus.
Despite completely locking down provinces, China had much higher mortality rate than other countries who practiced transparent public education and disclosure, public sanitation measures, and public participation. Although South Korea had a second largest reported cases after China initially, they were able to curtail its spread with free virus screen tests, open information (public alerts), and health treatment. Now they are seeing a plateau and have less reported cases than Italy or Iran. They only have 67 deaths per 7,979 cases vs 1,016 deaths per 15,113 cases in Italy or 429 deaths per 10,075 cases in Iran. Singapore reports 0 death per 187 cases. South Korea even instituted drive-through virus testing stations. Thankfully we too are starting to implement something like this in local level (University of Washington Medical Center is offering drive-thru testing now).
Hope we too can have coordinated public program at the federal level soon here in the U.S. Clearly we don't have to resort to complete lockdown like China to have successful containment. Many open societies like South Korea have previous experiences from SARS and MERS and their experience can be modeled to contain the outbreak effectively.
South Korea’s coronavirus infection rate falls without citywide lockdowns
South Korea has reported a drop in the rate of new Covid-19 cases, attributing this to mass testing, better communication and the use of technology.
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Im trying to wrap my head around this too. There is no vaccine yet, and peole are said to have reinfected themselves, so i dont’t know how this works.
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The science doesn't lie, but it's difficult to follow and not very conclusive yet. I think the market is the surest sign. Like how US election polls are useless in comparison to US election betting odds.
The Qingdao store was closed on January 28th. It is already re-open (ie, no stores have been closed for the entirety of the last 6½ weeks)
Keeps that fraction (above 1.0) from exponential growth. Open your math textbooks.
You might want to look into the figures a little more deeply. “Despite” suggests it didn’t work.
The figures are very heavily skewed by the overwhelmed medical system in Wuhan, which is being mirrored in northern Italy right now.
Jiangsu province - 80 million population. 631 cases. 630 recovered, no deaths. There’s no “despite”. It worked.
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Most countries still have a long way to go.
The federal government CAN’T just decree lockdowns. They don’t have that power. It is up to states to do that.
Where the feds have failed big time is the lack of testing kits.
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And their foreign minister is putting out tweets claiming the US created the virus and leaked it in Wuhan.
Xi is trying to advertise the superiority of the Chinese model of authoritarianism and wants to declare victory just as the problem is getting worse in the rest of the world.
Heh. It’s kind of like the federal government = microsoft and the states are the various PC manufacturers. Sometimes Microsoft can lead a horse to water but they can’t make them drink. Sometimes they’re too slow to respond and support something (new hardware in the analogy, testing in real life) so the manufacturers/states have to hack together their own solutions. Funny in a way.
Then you have the Chinese government sitting pretty with everything integrated like Apple. Not always the fastest to respond, but...
There is no such research saying that, there have been some reports of reinfection, but in the case in Japan the indication is that the testing was flawed. What is observed and best guess by scientists are similarity to how antibodies developed and responded to the original SARS-CoV. Only recently have an antibody test for SARS-CoV2 been developed, which should help research. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.25727
From other coronaviruses including the first SARS there is a long lasting t-cell mediated immunity response. It is reported to be still active in tested humans and animals, so high expectation of lifetime response, compared to more limited lifetime of the antobodies. But how it works it may not stop an reinfection but should very likely cause a much more muted illness.
The thing is our medical facilities and capacities are not remotely on par with China. We don't have enough supplies for the medical centers let alone the public.
Your comment is ridiculous.
1. China was facing a brand new virus, unknown to the human being. When doctors look at the first few cases, nobody knew about the virus. How do you expect government to deal with something unknown. Everything government does will have real world consequences. When you take action without knowing anything about the virus, you are triggering mess public panic. It does nothing good to counter virus. In fact, it will do the opposite. When you have a optometry doctor speculate the virus without detailed knowledge about the virus, you just gonna make things worse. Anyone can go back and criticizing Chinese government, but I doubt you can do better.
2. China did quick study about the virus, shared genetic information to the WHO and locked down the city. Tell me which government has that quick response? Canadian government has been telling its own citizen risk is low and no need to wear mask. Now the PM’s wife is tested positive. United States has months to prepare, yet mess infection is still happening in United States.
3. China opened two field hospital within ten days. Tell me which government is capable of doing this? China is treating all patients for free, yet you are out of luck in United States. The fact that the president of United States tells his citizen nothing to worry about on Twitter is very telling.
It is joke to see how Western government deals with this virus.