China's almost certainly faking their numbers. We know they fake every other number related to economics - so why would they tell the truth about coronavirus? This is what a "save face" culture does to you. It turns you into a serial liar
And definitely please don't "make the same post again and again" about anything on HN. Repetition is the enemy of curiosity.
- The emergency hospitals in Wuhan have all been closed.
- Factories are starting to ramp up production.
- The Chinese government has donated millions of masks, testing kits, and other medical supplies to various countries.
- Today, a team of Chinese doctors along with several tons of medical equipment just arrived in Italy to help.
All of these actions suggest China has their internal situation under control now.
> This is what a “save face” culture does to you.
From my experience, this is an overly used trope. Besides, are you suggesting South Korea and Japan are also lying?
How does it make any sense at all that in the place where this started, a place with 1.4B people, that over the last few days, only handfuls of people have tested positive? Fewer people than tested positive in Iceland? A country of 300k in the middle of the Atlantic...
One of my close friends is Chinese and her family live in the outskirts of Wuhan. I asked can her parents leave her house and so on and she told me they were never locked down so they couldn't leave home. So if people near Wuhan weren't "totally" locked down, how was the whole of China SO locked down that basically nobody got this virus in the past few days?
Does it make more sense that there was some sort of perfect miracle lockdown where all 1.4B people in China were "locked down" and didnt infect anyone, OR that China realizes that there is little attention on them right now and are playing down their numbers OR simply not testing people and letting everyone gawk at Italy and South Korea? China is using this as a propaganda exercise to demonstrate the superiority of their top down authoritarian way of government, so Western media is now praising a dictatorship which also happens to have concentration camps for muslims and silences political dissenters brutally.