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China exporting its culture to the world.

This is the same thing China is doing, except China is also lying about it and saying they have "contained" it with extreme quarantine, in part to trick other nations into doing the same thing to tank their economies while China is going back to work and letting the virus spread.

Good for UK to step up amidst hysteria. Hopefully other democratic nations will follow suit.

Do you have a source for that?

This article does explicitly discuss pre-symptomatic transmission, specifically it being worse than SARS but better than flu in that regard.

There's no shortage of test kits, there's a shortage of PCR lab capacity to process those samples.

Masks and ventilators would be a good thing to donate though.

Better yet, teach elders how to buy groceries online.

What's wrong with having a public / private partnership?

He misread it, watch the video.

1. Tell the labs to report COVID19 cases as "seasonal flu"

2. Stop reporting cases to unblock quarantine and travel restrictions

3. Economy back to work while rest of the world is trying to quarantine

4. Virus runs a course through the whole country and kills 30 million "expensive" old people with comorbidities, yielding a huge win against a long-term existential threat associated with ageing population.

Win-win for CCP, as far as they are concerned.

If I'm a poor student without a place to go I can imagine being quarantined in your dorm room with WiFi is not so bad at all.