Originally Posted by
Seneca Pilot
The foreign news source you showed quoted Chinese state media. You'll need a better source to sway anyone's opinions that China is humming along like nothing happened. I have no doubt that their lockdowns were effective. When you live in a society where your neighbor will turn you in for leaving your apartment, enforcing a lockdown is easy. It doesn't mean they aren't just as human as the rest of us. When they start to go back to normal they will see cases rise just like the rest of us. You just won't know because the state media controls the information flow.
No country will be humming along like nothing ever even happened for a very long time, as this pandemic has resulted in a paradigm shift.
You're arguing about the tree, and missing the forest.
You may choose not to believe China's numbers, but you don't need to rely on numbers to see that normalcy is returning to the cities. It is obvious and easily verified by the casual observer, let alone by foreign professional journalists. That was the crux of my point..
I think they will maintain their infection rates at a low enough level to get on with their lives until the vaccine becomes widely available, because whether voluntarily or forced, they are doing what's required to combat the virus.