![]() ![]() ![]() Interactive video was a luxury that rarely worked.Nearly 30 million college students were being educated online, along with an estimated 180 million schoolchildren. Much of education was done online during the lockdown period.Many aspects of the Chinese strategy could never be adopted in America or in any other democracy. ![]() ![]() By early April, all travellers who entered from abroad, regardless of nationality, had to undergo a strictly monitored two-week quarantine in a state-approved facility. The lockdown had been strictly enforced, and any infected person was immediately removed from his or her household and isolated in a government clinic. Very little was left to individual choice or responsibility.If a family were suspected of exposure to the virus, it wasn’t unheard-of for their door to be sealed shut while tests and contact-tracing were being conducted. Neighborhood committees, the most grassroots level of Communist Party organization, enforced the rules, and in many places they limited households to sending one individual outside every two or three days to buy necessities. The Chinese lockdown was more intense than almost anywhere else in the world.Much of the text is lifted from the article with some editorial changes, but rearranged and grouped for clarity. It is a long read, well worth your time but I present here a dry “CliffNotes” version of it, focusing on the COVID-19 part of the article. ![]()
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