Remains to be seen. I think they have pulled off an enormous feat in slowing the virus as they have. Maybe China comes out of this relatively better than some other nations. The cone of uncertainty is a mile wide.
The ratios of cases:deceased and recovered:deceased are converging, which at least reduces the error bars around some of the more important numerical parameters of this particular virus.
The most important thing to realize is that R0 is not a hard attribute of the virus but something that we have some control over. By reducing R0 through the application of best practices we can stretch the onset of the peak and hence reduce the number of fatalities and the number of people that end up in a critical condition.
Some examples of best practices:
- good personal hygiene, in other words: wash your hands
- don't travel if you don't have to
- don't touch your face all the time (very hard, subconscious)
- if you think you have 'a' bug don't go to work and stay indoors until you've been tested (call the doctor, they should have a protocol)
- avoid crowds
The next few weeks will be crucial and will have an enormous effect on how we (collectively) will look back at this in a few months time.
I feel super sorry for everybody living in countries that do not have free healthcare, the virus will have a disproportional effect on people of different wealth status but in countries without free healthcare that effect will be vastly amplified.
I feel sorry for smaller nations who rely on bigger countries for medical supplies/medicine as supplies reduce and become a national issue.
- coronavirus have been shown to reappear in recovered patients in China (prob due to the unsanitary conditions in cities)
- they have welded people in their homes. How would they have tested these folks?
- 800 million people are under quarantine. Again, how do they test all these people? Plus it’s been shown that family members locked in a tight space transmit the disease to each other. And the entire family dies off.
They are playing straight out of the old Soviet playbook. Their party is literally an incarnation of the CCCP. Do not treat this country as you would a democratic first world nation - it's culture is nothing of the sort, for better or worse.