I don't think is an "overcorrection". Lockdown is a top-level warning. Most Chinese people have no so much medical common sense, only a warning like this can stop them from trying to return home for the Chinese New Year.
Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN. I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Large internet forums are prone to bursting into flames when what sounds like national or racial putdowns appear.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22147151.
The most important factor during public health crises isn't common sense, it's trust. The quarantines are worthless if they cause over 50 million people to go into a panic because they don't trust the central authorities.
The predominant commentary I'm seeing coming from both sides of the Pacific is currently "what are they not telling us? why shut down several cities during CNY if its only a thousand cases and a few dozen deaths?" Large quarantines are high risk and I doubt even the CDC, which has spent decades cultivating trust, could pull one off. If people start hiding symptoms and avoiding medical care because of the lockdown, this whole situation could spiral way out of control globally.
"Wuhan's party secretary and governor cannot soothe the people's anger"
Faith is losing but but only the local governments. The vast majority of ordinary people still believe that the central government is being hoodwinked by local governments, and taking their anger on them. They still trust the central government would be responsible for them. It's ridiculous, but it's true.
You are displaying your ignorance here, with this statement.
What is your quantification of "most"? Is it 75%? 90%? 95%? or 99%?
Do you know "most" Chinese people? There are 1.4 billion people in China. Can you even fathom that number? Have you ever been to China? Do you even speak the language to make such a judgment?
Let's be scientific here.
The reality is that only a handful of people need to get infected, and they will transmit the virus to others. At which point, it gets out of control.
The lockdown is necessary to limit the transmission. To starve out the virus. It needs human hosts to breed and to propagate itself. And this probably serves as a more cautionary approach, to tell people to maintain their distance away from others.
The likely result of this, is that the central China government will clamp down on wet markets, which may have been the breeding ground of such viruses.
China just announced they are banning wildlife trade nationwide.
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China bans wildlife trade nationwide in farmers markets, supermarkets, restaurants, and e-commerce platforms, and tightens supervisions, due to the ongoing #CoronaOutbreak
https://twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/status/1221326706088144897?...
I disagree. There are no anti-vaxxers in China. I find it’s the opposite, where they often want to be over medicated.
I have experienced it first hand and I can tell you that on all honesty, healthcare in general is the biggest issue affecting the Chinese. Most of them don't realise how bad it is because that is what they know but even places in Latin America have way better patience care with less developed infrastructure