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Originally Posted by serialk11r
You know, instead of speculating and imagining weird conspiracies based on whatever TV you've watched about North Korea or the Soviet Union (which are not China), you can Google yourself to find every other article talking about all the official praise he's getting (highlighting that this is a very rare phenomenon in China too):
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ch/4688827002/
He didn't announce the disease, he messaged some doctor friends saying there were cases of SARS. The police brought him in, then he went straight home and was not booked in jail, then came down with the virus and died in the hospital. You can also easily find this if you read some news articles, which y'all clearly didn't.
State media and high level officials have called him a hero, but that's pretty ironic IMO because he didn't set out to warn people at all, it's just that since he died (publicly announced) that public anger exploded.
Telling people to stay indoors is obviously to avoid virus transmission...if you have a cough, don't you think you'd have a higher chance of infecting others if you're out and about? There's literally nothing else that can be done, since there's no cure or vaccine.
Come on, this forum is supposed to have fact-based, intelligent discourse, I know you're better than this, redpoint5 and hayden55. I don't want to see the stupidity of the internet reach here. |
My ignorance on the subject is because I'm not curious enough to Google it. My comment was based entirely on Piotrskop's comment, which you didn't lambast in your post.
Then I went on a tangent like I always do, because events don't live in a vacuum; they're all interconnected. I was curious why conventional wisdom is that flu season is worse because people stay in confined spaces and not due to temperature drop or other environmental factors. I never bought that explanation. If you read between the lines, I'm suggesting staying inside will not increase the likelihood of contracting a virus.
If China adopted Japanese etiquette for interacting in public, I expect the spread of infection could be curtailed. I've always figured wearing a mask while ill would reduce sneeze droplets from escaping and present a physical barrier to touching the mouth and nose. I try to remember not to touch my mouth and nose when I'm sick so I don't spread anything, but those things happen subconsciously sometimes.