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I really liked the Chinese policy of welding people in their homes (where some starved to death) and lying to the populace about the real numbers and severity of the coronavirus.


Yeah, when there's a deadly pandemic, some people will need to be quarantined.

I liked the bit where 3 million people didn't die, whereas 700k people died here.


There are some things the government just shouldn't be able to do, regardless of the justification. One of those things is locking people in their homes for an indeterminate amount of time.





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