Slight correction:
Posted on 01/25/2020 1:41:11 AM PST by Zhang Fei
The original city is China’s sixth largest—the U.S.counterpart is roughly Phoenix, but though since China is much more urbanized, one in 70 people live in the Chinese city—though if you count the Phoenix urban area, you get about the same ratio. The quarantine is roughly proportional to having the populations of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah quarantined
An eastern version of the analogy could likely be run, by I’m from the west. I think that North Carolina and West Virginia would give you about the right population for the present quarantine.
China is going to find it easier to simply release a list of the people who ARE permitted to travel.
Thank you, that’s a useful comparison.
[Are bats kosher?]
[Correct, while Mr. Xi is the most powerful person in the party, he is still part of an oligarchy, not an absolute ruler. Other people want his jobs or fear a cult of personality. A crisis like this, If mishandled, makes him vulnerable.]
Slight correction:
Coronavirus : The death toll stands at 41.
Credit should go to Belloc, from whom I learned some useful pedagogical methods for social science. The man was a genius—and my favourite half of the Chester-Belloc.
Congressional districts are very useful for quickly coming up with the right approximations, and with 50 states coming up with a state or combination of states with a certain population percentage is a piece of cake.
Biolabs in Wuhan. Something has escaped the labs, and is basically a weaponized virus.
It’s a big country. See my post 21. It may be an over-reaction, it may be an under-reaction, or it may be on target for where they are now.
If they move to banning movement of anyone without permission within the next two weeks, which is entirely conceivable given the trajectory, then we are either looking at something used as a pretext for the biggest social clampdown since at least the cultural revolution or the biggest epidemic since 1918.
Chinese, being Communist dictators, hide the truth, so if 42 is what is being admitted, think what the real number is.
excess population according to who?
China has population to emigrate and populate the world.
they are slowly taking over Africa
Unfortunately your tag-line may fit your post.
I find that link very scary, especially in conjunction with some earlier stuff I was reading (which was not as authoritative as the Daily Mail).
Developing my Phoenix-New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah analogy in post 21, that something pertaining academically only to Los Alamos becomes a factor in the region lends a ready explanation to what is going on.
Hopefully it is not something that has been weaponized. 10-40 percent is not good, but there have been things that have been a lot worse. At this point, I wood cotton to something that had a 5% rate and could be brought under control quickly.
56,000,000 out of 1,000,000,000 is a relatively small number. Not even 10%.
And we’ve seen “shelter in place” curfew orders in the USA in Houston and New Orleans for storms that didn’t even come through the area.
And we’ve seen “stay in your home” orders when the authorities were going door to door after the Boston marathon bombing even though the FBI had previously interviewed the perps and let them go.
I have Belloc’s book about hiking from France to Rome. I’m sure Tolkein read it before writing about the (non)crossing of the Misty Mountains.
I love travel writing, perhaps because I don’t go anywhere myself.
Interesting viewpoint.
Imagine being the brand manager for Corona beer......ooooy
Thank you for injecting some facts into the conspiracies thrown about in these threads
[The original city is China’s sixth largest—the U.S.counterpart is roughly Phoenix, but though since China is much more urbanized, one in 70 people live in the Chinese city—though if you count the Phoenix urban area, you get about the same ratio. The quarantine is roughly proportional to having the populations of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah quarantined]
Hmmm...... although I didn’t realize it until I saw your names side by side, I somehow didn’t realize you were different valuable FReepers.
I’ll pay closer attention
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