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Oh stop. China contained the virus with local measures. China has less land area than the United States, which is a very large country. The United States needs sustained regional lockdowns, and other measures in other areas. It does not merit a national response.

To put it in perspective, closing down the nation due to big outbreaks in particular regions is like closing down Darwin Australia due to the initial outbreak in Wuhan.




Is there any way to verify this? How do we know they are telling the truth? Also why is Russia so quiet about their population infection numbers?


These are all good questions. Unfortunately, America is the first big country infected that is friendly to America.


> China has less land area than the United States, which is a very large country.

Isn't China bigger than the States by land area?


America is slightly bigger. According to Google, USA is 3.797 million sq miles, and and china is 3.705 million square miles.


It's an old infamous error, where they measure water surface for the US but not China in order to appear higher in rankings.

China is larger though by all accounts.

https://www.worldometers.info/geography/largest-countries-in...


I mean, not by much though. They're about equivalent in size.




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