In China, the lockdown order came from above. It was executed by a state run by technocrats, and the population generally bought in. In the US, lockdown is a bottom-up push from social media. The state isn't run by technocrats, the population isn't fully bought in.
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China is a dictatorship. People don't buy in, they obey. Let's not forget that they are so efficient because a life is wort nothing in china for their technocrats.
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Respectfully, you are wrong. I am in China now, have lived here for a long time. Chinese citizenry is very much “bought in”. High level of social awareness and engagement. “We are in this together, for our country, for our future”, is the mentality phrased generally.
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great!
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Replying to @Katharina01099 @WZhuFeng and
as I said before its not like we can't learn from china (or any other country) I just don't want to be forgotten that a non-democratic system has it downsides (big ones imho) and we should look at the whole picture when taking notes.
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I absolutely agree with you, and feel we are on the same page in this perspective. I won’t buy into the false dichotomy of “authoritarian government or pandemic”; South Korea has succeeded, Singapore has succeeded, and Taiwan has majorly majorly succeeded.
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sadly the western world didn’t think it could happen to us until it happened to a white country 
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