Granted that China is very authoritarain, but there are some things beyond the Party/Government control, especially on a large scale. Even though the central government is located in Beijing, it is still the municipal government that is responsible for running the city’s response to the pandemic.
I failed to mention that my mother-in-law’s mother (grandmother-in-law?) is in South Korea. Nobody in my family is Chinese.
I don’t think it makes no sense. Risk in this case is not binary: having a smaller population coming and going means a lower risk of COVID entering, a smaller population to screen daily, and a much easier job contact tracing if there is a case.
Saw this today and thought of this thread.
That’s a scary high rate. Of my 872 covid + patients, only one died. Some were near death but we only lost the one, the others are recovering with cognitive function intact. Lots of 'em still fill like shit though, whether they nearly died or not.
Though a great many say they had very few symptoms.
Duncan unit. That’s an aged-care home.
With neither the state nor C/O Bob taking covid-19 seriously, there’s a lot to be said for retiring. You are a good and brave person, Qadgop.
I just saw this,
Best wishes QtM
And my apologies to Smart Aleq for those precious few of us living in the Turd Province of Trumplandia who aren’t raging poop stains, well me anyway.
80% of people who died from COVID in Texas jails had never been convicted, according to this article:
This article starts out bad, and just gets more depressing as you read on. 
" A harrowing new report from the UT Austin has examined the impact of COVID-19 on prisons and jails. Texas correctional facilities lead the country in COVID infections, with more than 23,000 cases and at least 230 deaths, including 27 staff members, 14 people held in jails, and 190 held in prisons.
Of the 190 incarcerated people who died, 21 of them had served 90% of their sentences. 110 of them were eligible for parole. And 9 of them were approved for parole, but had not yet been released. Of the 14 people held in jails, 11 of them were still awaiting trial, and had not yet been convicted of any crimes."
That should be entirely unsurprising, since if they had been convicted they likely would have been moved to a prison. The headline should read, “5% of people who died from COVID in the Texas Criminal Justice System had not yet had a trial” but that doesn’t quite have the same punch as the misleading headline they used, does it?