re: #80 Dr Lizardo
Some of those factory shutdowns could’ve been due to recent severe flooding in China. But I’d bet that COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire throughout China, far more than Beijing would care to admit. They’re keeping up the “all is well” pretense.
I doubt that. China’s response to the pandemic has been pretty draconian — if you test positive, they move you into their newly built “quarantine palaces,” and there you stay, alone, tested twice a day until your test is negative. I don’t know exactly what kind of contact tracing they do, but I expect it’s just as thorough.