Chinese student in America choose to fly home over $25,000 pocket money.

He wasn't just reprimanded by the police, he was forced to remain silent - there's a significant difference. He was reprimanded by the police, and he was forced to remain silent. I wonder what you think about people like Chen Qiushi? I respect him, but I don't agree with some of his opinions. His free speech should be protected, but unfortunately the government gives a shit about free speech. (1) the real number of casualities from China are unknowable; (2) the coronavirus has to yet run its course in other places No, they are largely knowable, except for the first ten days of the lockdown when everything was mad. Initially when the testing capacity was limited, there was siginificant underreporting. But when Wuhan managed to test 20k people per day, death count and confirmed cases should be very accurate. Cover up? No, the newly appointed government leaders won't be blamed for shit hitting the fan, that's their predecessor's responsibility. If you concentrate 10% of the country's ICU doctors, with 7k ICU beds, 18k extra normal hospital beds, enough ventilators and ECMO, you save a lot of lives. (3) it's important not to overly blur the actions of the state and the actions of individual and groups of Chinese people with the goodwill to help others Correct. I love the people. They are the most caring human being I ever knew. There is a clear boundary between private and public actions. Your last statement about the Chinese state doing better than Western governments is unqualified No, it's still qualified. 1) facing a new disease and facing a largely known disease are very different, they have a great headstart. Heck, it took the Chinese government a few weeks to confirm H2H transmission. 2) the organizational power of the Chinese government is a few leagues ahead. Mobilization, coordinating PPE productions, feeding millions of people in lockdown, ramping up testing capacity, etc. None of these is easy. They do it faster than other government. When you process more knowledge, you tend to find it difficult to make a definitive judgement on a complex thing - in this case the Chinese government. It's multifaceted.

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