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OTOH the same authoritarian government quarantined a city the size of New York and built field hospitals for thousands of people on very short notice when the situation truly got out of hand.

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Both are very classic traits of authoritarian gov: In times of crisis, it's far more efficient than democratic governments. However, in times of non-crisis, its centralized power and information control would cause a crisis that would've been otherwise avoided.

As long as we’re giving strikes for/against their authoritarian government, should we mention the millions in concentration camps and the complete lack of civil liberty?

We shouldn’t be so fast to accept their system

The Soviet government ended up addressing the Chernobyl disaster when that got out of hand, too.

I think any government, facing any crisis, is eventually going to do the right thing by virtue of running out of other options. The question is how many mistakes they make beforehand, and this seems like a big one.

Killed 20 million too in the great revolution.

This was during the COVID-19 outbreak?

Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents. Also, would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments generally? We unbanned you awhile ago because your comments had improved, but they've backslidden.

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Wow, so an authoritarian government did authoritarian things. Big surprise.

Sure, but they closed the barn gates after the horses had already bolted.

Edit: Oof, the truth hurts don't it?

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