03-27-2020, 09:14 PM
** 27-Mar-2020 World View: China closes movie theaters again, fearing virus second wave
On Friday, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ordered all movie
theaters across China to close. There are 70,000 movie theaters in
China, and they had all be ordered closed in January, to prevent the
spread of the Wuhan Coronavirus (Covid-19).
Recently, China has been reporting only a handful of new Covid-19
cases each day, and was bragging that China had been successful in
bring the pandemic under control in China. And so, two weeks ago, the
CCP began permitting movie theatres to reopen, and 600 theaters had
begun doing so.
However, on Friday evening, the CCP suddenly ordered all movie
theaters to shut down again. What this means to me is that the CCP
had been believing its own nonsense about having Covid-19 under
control, and the movie theatres were resulting in a "second wave" of
cases.
However, China has 1.4 billion people, and it simply doesn't make
sense that such a huge population should have ended the coronavirus
epidemic with only 80,000 cases. Nobody believes any numbers that
come out of China anyway, but these numbers never made any sense at
all.
In fact, there have been several reports coming out of China that
hospitals are not testing for coronavirus, or are reporting
coronavirus cases as something else, so avoid having to report new
cases. Furthermore the CCP still has brutal censorship rules in
place, where anyone who reports something that contradicts official
CCP claims can be harshly punished. So there is no incentive for
anyone to report new Covid-19 cases up the chain to the CCP, or to
even test for Covid-19.
What's interesting about the current situation is that the sudden
shutdown of the movie theaters reveals that the CCP believed its own
lies, and the lies were contradicted by the results of opening the
theaters, forcing them to be closed again.
China has particularly been bragging that the United States now has
the highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases of any country in the
world, including China. The reason for that is that the US has
conducted far more Covid-19 tests than any other country in the world.
The number of confirmed cases does not depend on the population of a
country. It depends on the number of tests. If a country has a
million cases, but only 100 people ae tested, then you will not
confirm any more than 100 cases. That's what's happening in this
case, where the US has now become world leader in testing for
Covid-19, and therefore has the largest number of confirmed cases.
Most people on tv don't want to talk about a "second wave," because it
interferes with the hope that the entire crisis will end by May,
though these are the same people who, a month ago, were hoping that
the crisis would end by April.
There are signs that a "second wave" is growing in Hong Kong and South
Korea, as the social distancing restrictions are being relaxed, and
restaurants are reopening.
In the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu pandemic, there was a huge "second wave"
in the fall of 1918. It was much worse than the first wave that
occurred in the previous spring, and killed tens of millions of
people.
** 22-Mar-20 World View -- Today's Wuhan Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic vs 1918 Spanish Flu
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e200322
In fall of 1918, officials were not expecting a second wave, and they
were completely unprepared for it. In fall of this year, officials
will be quite expecting a second wave, and will do everything possible
in advance to prepare for it.
That may not be true for China, if the CCP keeps believing its own
lies, and keeps censoring people who try to tell what's really going
on.
---- Sources:
-- China Shuts Down All Cinemas, Again
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/c...in-1287040
(HollywoodReporter, 27-Mar-2020)
-- Coronavirus Comeback? China Braces For Possible Second Wave Of
COVID-19
https://www.rferl.org/a/china-braces-for...13782.html
(RFERL, 27-Mar-2020)
-- Ren Zhiqiang / Chinese Property Tycoon's Letter Seen as 'Internal
Strife' by Chinese President
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/t...60600.html
(RFA, 26-Mar-2020)
-- The Second Virus Shockwave Is Hitting China’s Factories Already
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...es-already
(BB, 26-Mar-2020)
On Friday, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ordered all movie
theaters across China to close. There are 70,000 movie theaters in
China, and they had all be ordered closed in January, to prevent the
spread of the Wuhan Coronavirus (Covid-19).
Recently, China has been reporting only a handful of new Covid-19
cases each day, and was bragging that China had been successful in
bring the pandemic under control in China. And so, two weeks ago, the
CCP began permitting movie theatres to reopen, and 600 theaters had
begun doing so.
However, on Friday evening, the CCP suddenly ordered all movie
theaters to shut down again. What this means to me is that the CCP
had been believing its own nonsense about having Covid-19 under
control, and the movie theatres were resulting in a "second wave" of
cases.
However, China has 1.4 billion people, and it simply doesn't make
sense that such a huge population should have ended the coronavirus
epidemic with only 80,000 cases. Nobody believes any numbers that
come out of China anyway, but these numbers never made any sense at
all.
In fact, there have been several reports coming out of China that
hospitals are not testing for coronavirus, or are reporting
coronavirus cases as something else, so avoid having to report new
cases. Furthermore the CCP still has brutal censorship rules in
place, where anyone who reports something that contradicts official
CCP claims can be harshly punished. So there is no incentive for
anyone to report new Covid-19 cases up the chain to the CCP, or to
even test for Covid-19.
What's interesting about the current situation is that the sudden
shutdown of the movie theaters reveals that the CCP believed its own
lies, and the lies were contradicted by the results of opening the
theaters, forcing them to be closed again.
China has particularly been bragging that the United States now has
the highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases of any country in the
world, including China. The reason for that is that the US has
conducted far more Covid-19 tests than any other country in the world.
The number of confirmed cases does not depend on the population of a
country. It depends on the number of tests. If a country has a
million cases, but only 100 people ae tested, then you will not
confirm any more than 100 cases. That's what's happening in this
case, where the US has now become world leader in testing for
Covid-19, and therefore has the largest number of confirmed cases.
Most people on tv don't want to talk about a "second wave," because it
interferes with the hope that the entire crisis will end by May,
though these are the same people who, a month ago, were hoping that
the crisis would end by April.
There are signs that a "second wave" is growing in Hong Kong and South
Korea, as the social distancing restrictions are being relaxed, and
restaurants are reopening.
In the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu pandemic, there was a huge "second wave"
in the fall of 1918. It was much worse than the first wave that
occurred in the previous spring, and killed tens of millions of
people.
** 22-Mar-20 World View -- Today's Wuhan Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic vs 1918 Spanish Flu
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e200322
In fall of 1918, officials were not expecting a second wave, and they
were completely unprepared for it. In fall of this year, officials
will be quite expecting a second wave, and will do everything possible
in advance to prepare for it.
That may not be true for China, if the CCP keeps believing its own
lies, and keeps censoring people who try to tell what's really going
on.
---- Sources:
-- China Shuts Down All Cinemas, Again
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/c...in-1287040
(HollywoodReporter, 27-Mar-2020)
-- Coronavirus Comeback? China Braces For Possible Second Wave Of
COVID-19
https://www.rferl.org/a/china-braces-for...13782.html
(RFERL, 27-Mar-2020)
-- Ren Zhiqiang / Chinese Property Tycoon's Letter Seen as 'Internal
Strife' by Chinese President
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/t...60600.html
(RFA, 26-Mar-2020)
-- The Second Virus Shockwave Is Hitting China’s Factories Already
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...es-already
(BB, 26-Mar-2020)
