Everyone is acting on fear. My guess is there are not enough contrarians

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Apr 5, 2020
8:19:16am

byusage All-American

Everyone is acting on fear. My guess is there are not enough contrarians

and not many personally advising the government. At this point, with the whole world isolating to prevent the spread, it would take a lot of guts for a leader to not follow the trend. Nobody wants themselves, their family, or friends hospitalized and on a ventilator fighting for life.

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Post from a Friend of mine who teaches Jiu-Jitsu in China on his return to China

Blue Heart

4/5/20 7:07am

so, what I don't get is if this doesn't kill that many people, why is China so

bald man

4/5/20 7:24am

So, wait...China isn’t lying?

Iman23

4/5/20 7:26am

Agree, and why do we see such contrasting outcomes in different places?

Busiturtle

4/5/20 7:26am

My guess is same reasons it's crazy here

ABCoug

4/5/20 7:37am

That is a pretty broad brush to say leaders are doing this to make themselves

byusage

4/5/20 7:54am

The US leaders are acting on fear - for there is little data to act on!

Busiturtle

4/5/20 8:09am

Everyone is acting on fear. My guess is there are not enough contrarians

byusage

4/5/20 8:19am

The fever testing to catch the sick - the masks to prevent asymptomatic spread

ABCoug

4/5/20 7:25am

Masks to reduce self infection too.

JmThms

4/5/20 8:54am

Lines up exactly with what my employees daughter has said who lives in Wuhan

4/5/20 7:35am

As I have said before, my company’s China operations have been running normally

NewMexiCoug

4/5/20 8:17am

China has a very narrow margin of error due to population density.

Shore10

4/5/20 9:32am

Good point. Our largest manufacturing operations are in a city of 16 million.

NewMexiCoug

4/5/20 7:13pm

We were in both GZ ame DG until last year. Just DG and Vietnam now.

Shore10

4/5/20 9:16pm

My firsthand experience as well with teams in China

BYU'01

4/5/20 12:59pm

I wish they started this in November when the knew they had a problem and

GangstaLean

4/5/20 8:37am

China is a huge country, more like a continent. I believe a lot of the fault for

chilango

4/5/20 11:10am

And those people mysteriously disappeared, right?

JmThms

4/5/20 12:54pm

Huh?

chilango

4/5/20 7:47pm

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