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There won't be a vaccine.
Millions would have died, easily, in China considering there's like 1.4 billion people here.
About trusting the numbers from China, no, I don't. At the same time, do I think the numbers are as bad as what Americans are saying it is? Hell no. Why? Because I fucking live here. I'm in a group with foreigners all over the country, and I am telling you now, whether you believe it or not, since mid-March the country has had people outside. We stayed inside for the last week of January and all of February and then the beginning of March.
And in that group, we've discussed this, that we're outside and people aren't dropping like flies (which is what was happening in Hubei, people were literally dropping like flies, there are videos on youtube with old people just laying on the sidewalk). This large group of foreigners, everyone who hates the CCP, and it hurts to say but yeah, this extreme measures you could never dream of (and should never dream of) happening in America have curbed the infectious rates in China. For two months now, Beijing as a whole has basically been safe to go out (even many restaurants don't give a fuck about enforcing social distancing). This goes for most other cities here.
lithy I know who I am. I'm not a smart guy. I don't have any expertise in what coronaviruses are. I think it's safe to say that if nearly every government in the world has taken precautions to this extreme at the expense of losing unimaginable numbers of money, I think it's safe to say that know what they're doing. Maybe America is ready to open up again, sure. If the people are for it, then let them try.
This is the first time in modern history we've had a pandemic. No one, no country knew how to respond. It's been a day-by-day thing. You can keep rebelling for the sake of it, but in the end, what is your answer? And will people accept it?